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The Exeter Advocate, 1915-12-30, Page 7ALL MOTHERS NEED Y� CONSTANT STRENGTH R' heir Strength is Taxed and They are Victims of Weak- ness and Suffering When there is a growing family to care for and the mother falls' ill it is a serious matter. Many mothers who 'are on the go from morning to night `whose work, apparently, is never done try to disguise their suffering and keep up an appearance of cheerfulness. before their family. Only themselves know how they are distressed by backaches and .: headaches, diagging down pains and nervous weakness; how their nights are often sleepless, and they arise to a new day's work, tired, depressed and quite unrefresh- ed. Such women should know that their sufferings are usually due to lack of good nourishing blood, They should know that the one thing they need above all others to give them new health and strength is rich, red blood, and that among all medicines there is none can equal Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for their blood -making, health -restoring qualities. Every suf- fering woman, every woman with a home and family to care for should give these Pills a fair trial, for they will keep her in health and strength and make her work easy. Mrs. G, Strasser, Acton West, Ont,, says: "I am the mother of three children, and after each birth I became terribly run down; I had weak, thin blood, al- ways felt tired, and unable to do my household work. After the birth of my third child I seemed to be worse, and was very badly run down. I was advised to take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I found the greatest benefit from the Pills, and soon gained my old-time strength. Indeed, after tak- ing them I felt as well as in my girl- hood, and could take pleasure in my work. I also used Baby's Own Tab- lets for my little ones, and have found them a splendid medicine for child- hood ailments." You can get these pills through any medicine dealer or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, from The f)r. Williams' Medicine Co., Brock- ville, Ont. A GREAT AMATEUR COOK. , French Nobleman Served in Famous London Restaurant. Cooking, or the compounding of sal- ads and sauces, has the authority of historic precedent as a suitable hobby for French gentlemen of distinction. It was fashionable among the aristo- cracy in court circles before the Revo- lution, and became of essential service to more than one noble fugitive from the Terror during his exile. One young nobleman, after narrowly es- caping the guillotine, hid his great name under an alias, and served for several months as an assistant in a famous London restaurant, where he was soon given entire responsibility for the minced meats, entrees, and ragouts. After the partial restora- tion of his fortunes, the delighted in telling ttie story of his adventures, always concluding with a phrase that may perhaps best be rendered:. "So, you see. I disappointed them finely—the Sans-culottes. By the chopping knife they would have had me die, and behold! by the chopping knife I lived!" Frenchmen of • more than merely aristocratic distinction—authors, ar- tists and scientists—have also, says M. E. De. La Rue, "yielded to the clinking lure of little pots and pans, andthe bright beckoning of' kitchen fires. But among many who learned , to cook a little, or even to cook cre- ""ditably, there was only one who really became a cook. That was Alexandre Dumas, the elder, and for his qualifi nations we have the word of his chef." The chef, Monsieur Edouard, after some months in Dumas' service, came to him with a very gloomy face to give notice of his departure. "But, my dear Edouard, why?" ex- postulated Dumas. "If it is a matter of money, you shall have more. I do not wish to let you go; you cook ad- mirably. Your omelettes, especial- "Ah, monsieur!" cried Edouard, with out -flung hands. "So I have al- ways thought; myself; yet it is be- cause of a little matter of omelettes that I depart. Monsieur will remem- bei that we have had omelette for breakfast' both yesterday and toeday. Yesterday I prepared it; an omelette with parsley and little marrow balls, on which I pride myself. ` Monsieur approved it, and so did the two gentle- men, monsieur's guests. But to -day it was monsieur's fancy to make the omelette himself, after' a recipe of his. own, with chicken, livers" and small. red peppers. I, myself, passing by the door, overheard monsieur's guests cry out in, ecstasy, `But, good heavens, Dumas, this omelette is exquisite!' it is divine! It is "surpassing! Even the omelette of yesterday is as nothing to this!'. There was a little left. I slipped in; I tasted; they were right! "I must, monsieur will understand, depart at once, to refresh ° my art by study and experiment. I am willing to admit that monsieur is no ordinary amateur; he may rank with profes- sionals; still, I cannot remain tran- quilly in his kitchen, permitting my.- self to be surpassed. I depart with homage and regret—but I' depart."> The best way to net a living is to rain it. Pte, Chas. Farmer, Aged 78. Lord Derby's recruiting campaign has not only induced patriotic but supposedly ineligible Englishmen that after all they may be allowed to fight for their' country. When a man is '78 years old, for instance, he would hard- ly think it worth while to offer him- self as an able soldier, yet that is what one man did, and lie was not re- jected. The man was Charles Far- mer, a hero of the Crimean war, who had been out of the army for 44 years. It occurred to him recently, after hearing some of Lord Derby's emis- saries that in spite of his age he was a pretty fit young fellow, so he ap- plied for enlistment, and was 'made a member of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, Private Farmer, who is a joiner by trade and native of Shrewsbury, is very proud of the fact that the doctor who passed him de- clared him sound in wind and limb, LIVE IN THE TRENCHES, Experience of a British Volunteer Officer at Gallipoli. I am now back again in the firing line. As we came up the Turks must have noticed the dust, for they fired shrapnel at us. Three burst on a parapet above my head, between five and ten yards away. They bespatter- ed me and the company sergeant ma- jor with dirt, but, thank God, that was all. I thought something worse would have happened, writes a British volunteer officer, since wounded, in the Manchester Guardian. We are in a long fire -trench, full of twists and turns, almost a maze; in fact, I have to keep a plan in my note- book to find my way and realize where my men are. The Turks are from 10 to 30 paces away from us. Neither side dare show a finger, and the watch is constant. Both sides have to keep moving the periscopes, as the enemy snipe them. I never saw so many flies as there are here. I had 10 in a mug• of tea as soon as it was handed to me. I had begun to get used to them where I 'was before, but here they are insufferable, and even'perch on one's lips. I have got a very comfortable place for myself for the little rest I shall get here. It is long enough for me to stretch at full length, and I have got down an oil -sheet and two blankets and have my pack and air- cushion, so I am doing pretty well. Just opposite to me is a cleft in the rock on a level with the ground, where I have put a number of things, and the rest are on the parapet accu- mulating dust. . . . The climate is so dry that the skin on my hands and arms is peeling. A great many of the men are so brown that they look like niggers. One of my men is just saying, "I wonder how it would seem to sit down to table with a cloth on." "You have no idea how :emote all those things of ordinary life seem to us. Tea and and sugar 'get mixed and float inex- tricably in the same mug of lime - juice; butter never comes our way, and meat, jam and eggs compete for room on the same plate. I drink on one side of a mug and, the sergeant major on the other. , .I eat sweaty chocolate; intertwined with . melted silver paper wrapping. ,The food is all covered with dust, all sorts of things happen to our utensils, and yet I enjoy my food immensely. That side of it is a great picnic. .It is the other side we hate so much. There are none of us here who have seen war can ever desire another. I hate it and everything belonging to it. It all seems so inadequate that might should be right, or shall I say that right has to prove itself ' might to gain the victory? Very few can face such a crisis with equanimity. I cannot and never shall. Perhaps men who are born soldiers can laugh at death and revel in war, but I, who am only a poor lawyer who has tempor- arily doffed the robe to don khaki, must confess Iprefer the robe. I do. not say that I am not taking pride in doing my duty; I take an immense pride in my work because it is my duty and I like to do my best.. But the work gives me no pleasure of 'I. German Officers Killed. In a private, report which has come into the ' hands' ‘6f-flie' '"Frenn,'the• number of German ficcld artillery of- fhcei s of all ranks who have been kill - ,ed tui ill,edup to September 10 since the be- ginning of the war On the Western front, is put as 'equal\,to the officer personnel of 240 batteries.-` ED. 7. Exceptional Record Ry.._Roya Royal Bank In Addition to Showing Position of Unprecedented Strength, Bank has Made Increase in Net Profits over Previous Year—Large Increases in Deposits and Total Loans, The Annual Statement of the Royal Bank of Canada will likely prove one of the pleasant surprises at the end. of a peculiar banking year. In prac- tically every respect it is the best report ever issued by the Royal. A position of even exceptional strength was to be expected, but it is doubtful whether anyone had anticipated that under the unprecedented conditions of the past year it would be possible to even make a gain in net profits, Such a showing, in..times like these, is little short of remarkable, and must be accepted as an indication of the strong organization and. valuable con- nections which the Royal Bank has steadily built up throughout the world. Of particular interest in this regard is the satisfactory development of the important connections which the Bank possesses in Cuba and the West Indies. Increases In All Departments. In the aggregate the Bank shows gains in every important department, and while it has shown an increase in profits over the previous year, it has, at the same time, established new re- cords in the percentages of both liquid assets and cash as well as in total deposits and total current loans. Inface of such remarkable gains one naturally looks for some special reason for the growth of the Royal's business, and this results in one al- most immediately hazarding the opin- ion that the Bank is now beginning to enjoy the full benefits of the amal- gamations it has effected during the past few years. Large savings must gradually have been made and the whole organization steadily rounded out in a way that permitted of the employment of a very large percent- age of the Bank's funds even under less active trade conditions. Profit and Loss Statement. The profits for the fiscal year end- ing November 30th, 1915, were $1,905,576.57, equal to 16.48% on the capital, compared with $1,886,142,67, or 16.31% in the previous year. As the amount at the credit of profit and loss at the end of the previous year totalled $614,062.25, this, with the profits for the current year, brought the total amount available for distri- bution up to $2,519,638.82. Of this amount dividends took $1,387,200, $100,000 was transferred to officers'' per><sion fund, $250,000 written off Bank premises account, $105,966 ap plied as war tax on the Bank's note circulation, leaving the amount to be carried forward to profit and loss at the end of the year $676,472.16. Features of Strength. In the statement of assets and lia- bilities almost every account seems to contribute something to the general strength of the whole exhibit. Of more particular interest are the strik- ing gains made in liquid assets, :de- posits, total call and current loans, and, in consequence, in the total as- sets of the Bank. The assets reached a. new high level` at $198,299,123, compared with $179,- 404,054 at'stile ei.d of the previous year, a gain of practically $20,000,- 000. Of the total amount liquid as- sets reached a record level by touch- ing $84,894,462, equivalent to 49,03% of liabilities to the public, against $71,244,677 or 46.06% last year, In- cluded in the liquid assets were actual cash holdings of $31,923,680, equal to 18.48% of liabilities to the public, up from $27,683,855 or 17.90% in 1914.! The deposit in the central gold reserve was increased by a million, bringing it up to $3,000,000. An indication of the Royal's steady expansion is afforded by the growth in deposits, which amounted to over $18,000,000 in the year, the deposits not bearing interest having increased to $37,456,997 from $31,224,129, slid deposits bearing interest to $117,519,- 330 from $164,827,078, making a to- tal of 1$154,976,827,, against $136,051,- 208. As indicated by the increase in earning power, there were substan- tial gains in total call and current loans, the call loans both in and out- side of Canada having advanced to $18,9.51,000, against $14,654,000, and total current loans in and outside of Canada $106,551,000, against $99,587,- 000, an increase of close to $7,000,000. Looked upon as one of the younger of the bigger Banks, the Royal has certainly made phenomenal strides, and its ability to exhibit such a state- . ment under the conditions that pre- vailed during the past year augur well for its further growth and ex- pansion once conditions in the coun- try become more normal. The principal accounts, with com- parisons with previous year, are as follows: 1914. \'.•t profits. $i," 6.i4 .t7 $ 7,905,576.57 Percentage earned on paid up capital.. 16.31 16.41 Total de- posits .. 136,9 1,2.06.23 154,976,327.97 Total as- sets... 179.404.054.26 198,299,123.30 Liquid as- sets .... 71.244,677.99 ! 4,S111,463.43 Percentage of liquid assets to public lia- bilities . , 16,66 Current coin ... , 1.',9115;453.76 Percentage of cash to public liabllltics 17.90 1$.43 Total call loans , 1 .6,4,595..5 18,952,455,57 Total cur- rent loans 99,5S',,467,413 10,552,634.92 Bank prem- ises at not more than cost less amounts written off 5,561,130.37 KITCHENER'S GREAT TASK. More Expected of Hittt 'Than Any Man Could Accomplish. Lord Kitchener, under the special difficulties and uncertainties of the voluntary system, has had to grapple with the most gigantic problem of re cruiting and training that any sol- ' dier in the world's history ever had to face, says the London Observer. There never has been anything like the magnitude of that work, and it had to be accomplished by improvised machinery. Even after the recon- struction of last May, Lord Kitchener was still expected to combine the functions of a. maker of armiess with that of a director of campaigns. These two totally different functions cannot be successfully combined. Philip of Macedon created the na- tional military organization with which his son Alexander the Great swept from the Balkans to India. That is an example of the way in which the making of armies may ab- sorb one famous mind and the use of armies another. If the hereditary genius of a single family, the House of Baraca, shook Rome to its founda- tions, it was because Ramilcar fram- ed the Spanish infantry with which Hannibal crossed the Alps. Louvois, in more modern times, was an organ- izer of the armies that Turenne and Conde led to triumph. Frederick Wil- liam, like another Philip, created the Prussian military machine which Frederick the Great wielded like an- other Alexander. Carnot organized the French armies which Napoleon led. We conic down to a still more recent instance when we remember that von Roon's functions as an army maker were almost as distinct from Moltke's as was the latter's position from Bismarck's. We need not multiply examples. We have said enough to show that our troubles have been largely due to our obstinacy in looking to Lord. Kitchen- er for the direction of two different and even conflicting hinds of work, either of them big enough to absorb the greatest mind or set of minds, The provision of the requisite armies was, and is, the main affair. Scientific strategy is useless unless it wields ef- ficiency and sufficiency of force. Even with the splendid way in which Lord Derby is helping Lord Kitchener to make a success of the voluntary. 49.02 15,946,26,69 5,077,35.61 KITCHENER AS A SPY. Learned All He Wanted to Know From Two Dervishes. Although Lord Kitchener's thor- oughness. is proverbial, it has seldom been better exemplified than on one occasion during his expedition to Khartum. One evening as the British forces were nearing Khartum a dervish spy was discovered in camp and promptly taken to headquarters. But no threats or bribes would induce the spy to speak. He pretended to be both deaf and dumb. Scarcely was his exami- nation over when another spy was led in, and proved to be equally stubborn. They were bound and led away, and placed in a well -guarded tent. About half an hour afterward there was a fresh stir and hubbub, and a third spy was dragged in, who also would reveal nothing, so he, too, was placed with the others. Soon the soldiers on guard outside were much surprised to " hear the "dumb" spies talking eagerly toge- ther in an undertone. It was impos- sible to hear what they said, but they jabbered away' for on hour or more. 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