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The Brussels Post, 1912-3-21, Page 6Only The Fence Maker Knows What's Underneath The Gaivanizing All fence looks alike in the store.. The test comps in year- by.year service under the sky. You cannot tell offhand what gauge or what quality of wire was used to make the fence you look at In the store. You cannot even be euro about the goodness of the galvanizing. You must buy on faith—and you can safely put your faith In We could eheap• en LEADER Fence quality a fourth and you'd nev- er notice It till you'd used Leader Fence This is the fenoe . of 9 -gauge, tested hard -drawn steel wire, smoothly and thickly galvanized and set together with the wonderful THREE -grip LEADER Look that limns springiness that lasts. Stretch LEADER Fenoo tighter than you'd dare stretch an ordinary wire: fence—it will stand it, because it is built to eland more. LEADER Fence Motet LEADER Fence has the one look that clamps verticals and Dross-wiresfirmly and lastingly together without danger of cracking the galvanizing. Thus, rust cannot touch this fence. If you do not know our local agent, write direct to us for complete information. Agents wanted in unrepro• seated districts. Write for proposition. THE rra ay ieen LIMITED, ST E CO. ATFORD, ONT. Secure & Profitable Bonds Paying 67 tI Price Bros. & Company have been in business in Quebec over Ioo years. It is the largest industry in Quebec Province. Their holdings of pulp and timber lands are 6,000 miles in extent, and have been valued by experts at over $13,000,000. The net earnings in 1910 were $448,000,000. The new pulp trill now under construction will double these earnings. Timber limits are insured with Lloyds of England against fire. q Price Bros. & Company First Mortgage Bonds pay 6 per cent. interest on their present price. They will assuredly appreciate in value. Considering interest return, security, and future increase in value, they are an unusually attractive investment. On application we will send you literature fully describing these bonds, SECURITIES CORPORATION Llrn1 YED BANK OF MONTREAL BUILDING - - - YONGE AND QUEEN STREETS R. M. WHITETORONTO MONTREAL-QUEBEC-HALIKAX-OTTAWA Manager LONDON (000.) as• The Standard of Quality Since 1850 iv An experience of over sixty years in the Seed business in Canada, and our long connection with the Best Growers of the World, gives us advant- ages which few seed houses possess; added to this, our careful system of testing all • our seeds for purity and germination, and the great care exercised in every detail of our business, brings to us every season many pleased customers, to add to our already large list of patrons. SHOPPING BY MAIL is a most fascinating, enjoyable, and profitable pursuit. You can in a few days, and with perfect safety, though far removed from the source of supply, have delivered at your door— Bruoe's Seeds: Tho Seeds that satisfy, Alfor our had cle ‘5"'. somoly ou j lustreeed 112 pageuiro to do is to send sCatelegue ost card Sof Seeds, Plante, Bulbs, Implements end Poultry Supplies, Which we sill mail free f charge, and on receipt ofsamo send ueyourorder. Write for It now to John A. Bruce 6apZ Co., Ltd., Seed Ho The Hamilton, Canada. Meow How of Cnnnde. LAND D OF LOPE -MAKING. All -,Absorbing Topic in Alfonso's Doatains. Writes one who has travelled much in Spain : "As the majority Of Andalusian girls are engaged by the age of 17. the senoritas do not go to many dances, for a Spaniard would a.s soon allow his fiancee to dance with another man as the would let her wear a harem skirt or ride a bicycle. At their parties Spanish girls get unbounded ad- miration, and a senor wha had reached the age of 19 and talked to a girl without trying to make love to her would-be coneidered gauche in the extreme. The guests are given nothing to eat on these fes - K o •t reat is a tempting bird dainty that has a won- derful ton to e cct on the caged songster. Prom the tips of his plumage to the heart of his song it gives brilliant, sparkling vivacity, A cake of this Treat comes in every package of B1cocli'p Bird Seed `and. in Brocles only. Be sure you get Brae/c.a. This splendidly balanced ration of clean, imported seeds, with Brook's Bird Treat for dessert, will fit your bird to render his purest, richest tong, We want you to find out how beneficial Brock's Bird Treat will bo for your bird, and will send you 2 full-size cakes of the 'treat If you will mail us the coupon below. NICHOLSON di CROCK 9.11 Feeleir 9t., Toronto. For this coupon, please, send tee, free of charge Cir obllgation Oh my part, two full -slid cakes. Of Brook's Bird Treat,' and oblige, UAMa Anpfttsa tive occasions, glasses of cold wa- ter being simply handed round when they are leaving. "Love is an all absorbing topic in this amorous land of orange &w- ens and revolutions. 'In Spain we do not talk of money ; we talk of love,' a Spaniard once said to me. He was right, for love is the be- ginning and end of every Spaniard's thoughts. On the feast days the young men play no' games, prefer- ring to stand about and see the girls pass, and in every daily news- paper you will read of duels fought for some fair senorita's favors. "The typical senor falls in love fifty times a year with a newness and a passion that has in it some- thing of molten lava, and is about as durable. A pair of laughing eyes once seen at a window, a glimpse of a pretty face in the street, and he counts his world well lost. Spain is the most marrying country in Europe." a. IIABM DONE BY RATS. Injure• Horses and Actually Rill flogs. Almost unbelievable are some of the things done by the rat, this self- same squealing, gluttonous, all-per- vading, all -destroying brown rat. Rats often gnaw the hoofs of horses.. T,h•ey have been known to attack fat hogs, causing dearth. They will fight human beings if centered, They of- ten steal valuable articles to use in building nests. One carried away a pound and a half of saggar, a pud- ding, e,, stalk of •celery, a beet, ear- rotes, turnips and potatoes, In the last dozen years more than 5,000,000 human beings have died from plague in India alone. The India Plague Commission, anter careful inquiry, found that bubonic plague in smn is entirely dependent on the disease itt the rat] Marvellous in its destructiveness is the common house molute, closely related to the rat and, like it, im- ported from The field mouse., too; is highly destructive, the most destructive to agriculture a;f all the rodents, MAKING SAFE INVESTMENTS SOME VARIOUS FORMS OF PREFERRED SHARES. How They Differ From Each Other—Im- portant Points for the Investor Con. templating Stook Investments to Know —How Debenture Stook Is Not Stock at all as We Understand the Tam. The articles contributed by "Investor" aro for the sole purpose of guiding prole pootive investors, and, if possible, of save lag them from losing money through planing it in"wild-cat" enterprises. The Impartial and reliable oharacter of the. information may bo relied upon. The writer of those articles and the publisher of this paper have no Interest to serve In connection with this matter other than those of the reader. Like many other good things—and bad— there is more thanone kind of proferred stook.There le, of course, the ordinary prcforresl and cumulative proferred stock referred to last week, but there is also a preferred stook which has the advantages of common stock as well as those of pre- ferred stock. Such a stook, for example, is "participating" preferred stock. In the case of the "Soo'' railway stocks (Soo' being an abreviation for Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie) .the preferred, shares are "participating." The preferred stock qualifies for its seven per cent. dive,' deuds before the common can receive any return; but after thecommon has re• coived seven per cent, any further pro.( fits which might be divided among the, shareholders mast go to preferred and common shareholders alike. In other words, after the common shareholders re• ceivo the same return as the preference shareholder's the preference shareltolders "participate" in the surplus profits of the company. , This is in many ways a very satisfactory form of investment, as it adds to the safety of the preference share the prospects of appreciation (that is the speculative element) that attaches to the common. Still another form of preferred share which has many of the advantages of the participating share is the "convertible" preferred share. For illustration, lot us take that of the F. It Burt Company, which is listed and well-known on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and whose an. nue] report has recently appeared in this paper. In this case the preferred stook bears 7 per cent. dividends, which must be paid before the common can receive any return. So soon, however, as the shareholder desires, he may turn into the company his preferred shares and receive'from them an equal number of shares of common stock. Not a very sensible exchange, you says Certainly not, when the common bears a four or five per cent. dividend; but sup- pose, instead, it were eight or ten per cent. Then, of course, by the simple pro. cess of exchanging the sharps the old 7 per cent. preferred may be converted into 8 or 10 per cent, common with a corm. sponding increase in income, though, of course, not of market Isrioe, as the foot that the preferred shares are convertible will prevent any great divergence in the market quetatlone for the two classes of stock. There is also preference stock which parries voting power, and which has the right to elect certain members to the board, and there are other ingenious kinds of preferred chafes calculated to attract the investor who wants a certain amount of safety coupled with a little speculation. Of ab entirely different class, however, is the security kuown as "'debenture stock,' which, as part of its name im- plies, ie more in tbe nature of a bond, though as a general rule, and as some. times may be inferred by the use of the term in the name, is perpetual. This fact and the fact that it may be subdi- vided and must be registered in the name of -the owner, constitutes the chief similar- ity between this class of security and a share. If, however, through any cause the debenture stock's interest is in de- fault, the mortgage under which it 9e se. cured—for it is in this manner nothing but a special form of bond—will bo fore- closed and the holders of the debenture stook will be repaid, as if they were hold - sharesand stooks, and, altsough one may end mauy other variations, if one looks hard enough they are by no means usual or important, being chiefly alterations in name rather than forty, INVESTOR. (Tho next rew articles will bo devoted to the disouss)on of various 0100000 of Sharps, sueh as bank, railroad, public 0505100, )ai• duetrialand navigation.) DARING ESCAPE, Stone Walls Did Not itlake Prison For Him. A militant Socialist named Tho- mas, who had been condemned to five years' imprisonment for high way robbery, has made ,a daring es- cape from Chartres (France) P111 - BOIL Pending en appeal,he was spend- ing his days in the prison office. A few days ago he slipped unnoticed into the carpenters' shed. There he seized a large bundle of string arid a folding ladder. When he reached ,the outer prison yard he had two wallaib, 18 feet and 29 feet high, and 12 feet apart, still between him and lerty. Outside, however, an accomplice was waiting. Tying a weight to one end of the string, Thomas threw a line over the 'two walls. To the string his friend attached a stout rope, of which the prisoner soon had possession. With his rope lad- der he climbed to a stoutly grilled window opening on one of the pri- son corridors. He tied the rope to the bars, and when. it had been pulled taut by his accomplice, he swung himself on to it. Suspended by his hands, he slowly worked his way along the rape, scrambling over tho two walls, and then slip- ping down the end of the, rope into the street. A moment later he was in a motor -car speeding away from Chartres. The police have found no trace of him. FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY Where the Winters are Cold and the Snows Deep. Writing from the vicinity David Harum made famous, a roan says that he was an habitual coffee drinker, and, although lie knew it was doing him harm, (Tea is equally harmful, because it contains caf- feine—the same drug found in cof- ee) was too obstinate to give it up, till all at once he went to pieces with nervousness and insomnia, loss of appetite, weakness, and a generally used -up feeling, which practically unfitted him for his arduous occupation, and kept him on a couch at home when his duty did not call him out. "While in this condition Grape - Nuts food was suggested to me and I began to use it. Although it was in the middle of winter and the thermometer was often below zero•, almest my entire living for about six weeks of severe exposure was on Grape -Nuts food with a little bread and butter and a cup of hot water, till I was wise enough to make Posture my table beverage. "After the first two weeks I be- gan to feel better and during the whole winter I never lost a trip on my mail route, frequently being on the road 7 or 8 hours at a time. "The constant marvel to me was how a person could do the amount of work and endure the fatigue and hardship as I did, on so small an amount of food. But I found my new rations so perfectly satisfac- tory that I have continued them— using both Postum and Grape -Nuts at every meal, and often they com- prise my entire meal. "All my nervousness, irritability and insomnia have disappeared and healthy, natural sleep has come back to me. But what has been perhaps the greatest surprise to mo is the fact that with the benefit to my general health has come a remark- able improvement in my eve -tight. "If a good appetite, good diges- tion, good eye -sight, strong nerves and an active brain are to be de - red, I can say from my own ex- rience, use Grape -Nuts and Pot - m." Name given by Canadian Postum Co., Windsor, Ont. Read the little book, "The (toad to Wellville," in pkgs.. "There's a reason," Ever read the above letter? A now one appears from time to time. They aro genuine, true, and full of human Interest ere of the ordinary mortgage boucle. So st debenture stook should not be confused $U with shares, for the difference between the twe is quite as great, if not quite so apparent owing to confusion of names, as between bonds and shares. These complete the common forme of Well, Well! 'THIS isa HOME DYE 'that ANYONE can use t, 1 dyed ALL (hese' \DiFFEIIE'NT KINDS' —s ; of Goods with these: pile - r - I.usecl: ONEDYENRALL KINDSorGooDs CLEAN 4N1P1.L *0 Use NO1,,,tololnsineth 1VRONC.nye /areae Coeds nd hen to toter. Allcorn a Item vo n ani , or cdra Deride eoidedN0ri 0 STOlte h I1 ra, 771.6 aehnnam Ict!drhoe t.Aeeimermerm. tfreareeeeemseexameeerta Momront, 1' BE YOUR OWN FOOD EXPERT. It is a fairly easy matter to test every -day articles of food to detect the presence, of certain common adulterants. For instance, - you plunge a bright knitting -needle into a tube of milk. Should a large drop slowly gather on the and of the needle when it is withdrawn, the milk is rich and pure. But if the drop that forms is small, your milk has been watered. If you scatter half a teaspoonful of ground coffee over the surface of a tumbler of water you' will find that any adul tenants in thg coffee Will, Pink, Mn- - monis poured aver crashed piekfes: willt if it turns blue, bear silent testimony that the pickles coptain copper. Held over a small flame, good fresh butter boils quickly and e,Venly; imitation hater will crack- le and splutter. Boiling water is e pourd over a teaspoonful of c If the cocoa ,shower a marked thick- ening, it indicates the presence of that common adulterant, Martin NEM TORONTO LETTER WHAT IS CO{NQ ON AT THE HUB OF THE PROVINQE. Sdward Blake—Number of Jews in the City --Toronto's Water supply. w -- (We have arranged for a weekly letter about Toronto nifairs, whielt, we believe, will be of great interest to many of our mations. 'these lettere will be from the pen of one of Canada's foremost Joliette - lists, a men who has covered some of the world's greatest happenings and now oc- cupies a Medley pooitiou on one of the Toronto dailies.) The messing of Edward Blake, in many respects Toronto's most dlatinguished citizen, curiously enough leaves little gep in the life and aotivities of the city. The annouuoemoat of kis death (same to most people as an echo of the past. It was as if cue was told that John. A. Macdonald or Oliver Mowat was dead. Thia arises from the fact that while Blake was not an extraordinarily old man, being only in bis seventy-ninth year, it ie now more than twenty years since be has taken any votive part in the affairs of Toronto or of Canada. Se hnd long ago withdrawn from every oMce or position in business, educational, church and social organiza- tions. Since he suffered hie first attack of paralysis five years ago bo has • been living at his home in Jarvis street so quietly that probably not one citizen in n hundred knew ho wag in Toronto at all. Ile sate only memherg of his Family and occasionally an intimate friend of by gone days. SEVERELY SIMPLE FUNERAL. By his earnestly expressed request, the funeral ceremonies were severely simple. The newspapers were not permitted to announce in advance even the hour, which was fixed for nine o'clock Sunday morn- ing. One enterprising newspaper photo- grapher was on hand at that hour, hop- ing to got a historic picture to illustrate the closing chapter in the life of a great man. But he was disappointed. Station- ing himself in a favorable position near the residence he waited for the cortege. Presently an undertaker's wagon passed. He paid no heed, waiting for the hoarse. But it did not come. - On inquiry he found that tbe wagon had borne the remains and that the mourners hnd proceeded to the cemetery by another route. THE JEW IN TORONTO. A matter which. has not been discussed bo any extent openly, but which is came tug considerable anxious thought, ie the rapid increase in the Hebrew population of the city. Ten years ago there were not in all Ontario morn than 5,000 Jews. To- day there are in Toronto alone not less than 22,000, and some estimates place the number as high as 25,000, in itself a city of respectable dimensions. The immigration oe Jews into Toronto in recent years is estimated to be upwards of 1,500 a year. In addition, the natural increase is very large, Hebrew families being quite as proliflo as Fronch•Cana• dlan. Families containing twelve chil- dren are not uncommon. and six is re garded as a small family circle. Now the invasion promises to take on an even more serious aspect. Simco the United States has inoreaeed the severity of its regulattgge governing this class of immigration. GREAT tXONEY GETTERS. Many of the European Jews arriving in Toronto come from conditions of hide- soribable overcrowding and poverty. But they do not very long remain poor. Their natural acquisitiveness is wonderful to behold. If the Jew makes only 50 cents a day he saves some of it, and his eav- Ings he puts into a business, or into real estate. There are probably twenty-five Jews in Toronto who are wealthy, that is, whose property rues Into six figures. These in- clude such Ston as Jacob Cohen, a prom- inent politician and now a police magis- trate, "judge" Cohen, as he is admiringly called by his fellows; Sigmund Samuel, head of •a large wholesale hardware firm; Frankel Bros.; dealers in scrap metals; S. Frankel, the jeweller, and many others. The splendid residence of the late Daltolt. McCarthy on Beverley street has been purchased and is now used 0e a club by wealthy Ilebrews, The Jews do not assimilate, and this, is a thing which causes food for thought, now that they aro getting so numerous, They stink to their religion. Several of the churches have maintained missions to the Jews in Toronto for years, but it is doubtful it all told there aro 100 converts to date, and they aro probably looked upon by their fellows as. renegades, TORONTO'S WATER. Pretty nearly every visitor to Toronto during the last twenty years has been warned to leave "Toronto's water alone." me supply wee, in some eases, commonly supposed to come from the polluted bay, and at some periods it has been bad enough in all conscience. It is to be hoped that the days of bad water aro about over. Indeed, civic boosters now declare the supply t0 be Om purest to be found anywhere on the continent, The city's waterworks plant ea it stands to• day, liae coot not lees than $10,000,000. So if purity has not boon scoured it le not from want If trying. The latest ad.. y'irtr rtttt "71st ,y h'• I; nail..: : '�.• •1 r��nrautnunun,a �"� • . % THE STANDARD ARTICLE • SOLD EVERYWHERE le I IIIovlmakirg' ,p, i I �, sgftentngi1 water; dgnl nuquuum•u Ip•rynn,.ag111' re, Odin l .. •1n' lelILIISI IIIIn vett,llillIiPII•. 1 II'111Y11111 111lI s in k'3 ��IIll�lell"IIpkllnll1141• ®sea UU1eIlYlelhilllll9 111111 IIIIIIIII' I' hl11111jf �ra>lres ndl�ii(or 4111 any pdol uq geS �'� tff[[ IPS E W GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED TORONTO,ONT. to be s0 faulty in construction as t0 greatly impair its efficiency, and the Judge himself has expressed some doubts. The tremendous nature of the task of supplying water for Toronto may be judged from the fact that on some days the consumption of the city as measured by the waterworks pumps Is as high as 60,000,000 gallons. The average for 1911 was over 55,000,000 gallons a day. To die - tribute .the water to the houses no less than 3,999 miles of water mains have been laid; and there are 76,601 individual water services in the pity. '1 HE RNEW THE JUDGE. Had Been Before Ililn, But t11e. Evidence Was Weak. Lord Kames used to relate with great gusto a ,story bf a man who claimed the honor of his acquain- tance on singular grounds. , His Lordship, when ono of the Scottish judiciary judges, returning from'tho Northern circuit to Perth, happen- ed one night to sleep at Dunkeld. The next morning, walking toward the ferry, he asked a man whom he met to •conduct him. The person ac- costed answered with the utmost cordiality ; "That I will do with all my heart, my Lord. Does not your Lordship remember mel My name's John Thomsen; I have had the honor to be before your Lordship for stealing sheep. "Oli," John, I remember you well," exclaimed the judge. "And how is your wife1 She had the hon- or to be before me, too, for receiv- ing them, knowing them to be stolen." "At your Lordship's service. We were very lucky, indeed, to get off for want of evidence. T am still at the butchering trade." "Then," replied his Lordship, "we may have the honor of meeting again." 01d Gentleman—Well, my little lad, are you going fishing, or arc you going to school? Little Lad— I dunno yet. I'm just a-wrastling with my conscience. Convincing Argument - A single dish of Post To.= sties with Cream. :Delicious Wholesome ,6 •. Convenient dition is the erection at the S;sland o[ a filtration plant, a huge -structure costing - tithe over $760,000, And as a further preosu• tion be a r i t w to gull oatod toh fp 1 a chlorin. Sting Proems, Which le Sea ki' to all lc germs, though it leaven an nnploasant Odor and tarifa if applied too gonerouely. Who filtrti ". s onlent p le tt concrete ritrnc• Euro which li fig Atilt been the subject of a rigid ,ludicial investigation, ,There line boon 110010 Suspicion that it might i;reen Many Prominent ton, Among C•oolt's Victims, The premier cleg stealer of Ions clan, England, and probably of Me world, has just been •convicted for the twenty-third time of',appropri- ating the dog of somebody else to his own use. His career as a specialist in dog stealleg dates officially from 1804, when he was first convicted, Many prominent persons, including the Duke of Fife, have had experiences with this man, 'who is William Cook, alias The Chinaman, Cook has even figured in a book of reminiscences written by the late Judge Montagu Williams. In his early days at the bar Mr, Williams lost a valuable dog and in response to an advertisement a rough looking man called on him. and offered his services to find the missing pet, giv- ing ,as a reason for believing that he could be helpful that he was ac- quainted with people who made a practice of dog thieving. A prelimi- nary payment of $50 or $100 result- ed in the restoration Of the dog. Several years later Mr. Williams was prosecuting cases, in Middlesex Sessions, among them a charge of stealing a dog, The •defendant in this Daze was recognized by Mr. Williams as the -roam who had re- covered his pet. The charge against the man was a misdemeanor punish- able by imprisonment for not more than eighteen months, but Mr. Wil- liams found that the stolen dog wore a valuable collar and that con- viction for the theft of this would make the prisoner liable to heavier punishment at penal servitude. The dog thief, who, was Cook, was convicted of the, 'greater charge ,and sentenced to prison for five years. The story is told in Mr. Williams's book, "Leaves of a Life," Since that time, when he learned the distinction between steeling a dog and stealing a dog's collar, Cook has been careful to. differen- tiate very oarofully in his pleas of guilty. When he was taleen into court to plead this week he admit- ted stealing the dog, whose value was placed at $250, but emphasized that be did not admit stealing the animal's collar. , Cook made a specialty of high- priced animals. One of the secrets of his success its said to have been a preparation of powdered liver and aniseed whielt when placed in the cuffs of his trousers would cause even the highest toned dog in fash- ionable London to follow him. His twenty-two previous convictions, extending from December, 1864, to September, 1909, brought him seal- tences of imprisonment ranging from two months to five years, with an aggregate, of thirty-two years and seven months. • FRENCH SOLDIER'S IDEA. Invents an Apparatus to Save – Submarines. A private soldier in a Caanbrai (French) regiment has invented an ingenious apparatus for bringing speedy help to a submarine when an accident occurs. Armand Daudu's invention consists of a telephone, a ventilator, a safety bell, all of them small and all of them quite porta- ble. The telephone is screwed into a buoy, which, if an accident oc- curs,. can be let up to the surface of the water in an instant. The wire, unrolls as tl:e buoy 1ises, and communication can be established from the surface with the men be- low. The ventilator is a kind of valve which a diver can screw open in a moment and attach a pipe to it, through which fresh air may be pumped, and the bell is a kind of diving bell in two compartments, in which food can he stored and men from a wrecked submarine sent up in couples to the surface. Daudu's invention is being examined by a. special commission appointed by 14I. Delcasse, premier, and will proba- bly be adopted. CHILDREN IN FOSTER HOMES. Speaking of the children placed in foster homes years ago by the Society Children's Aid ,aoctety of Brant- ford, the secretsry, L. J. L. Ax- ford, says: It is a satisfaction oto know that tome of cur boys and girls have been happily married and are now comfortably sittiated in homes of their own. Some have been re- united with their parents or friends, and one returned to find relatives from whom lie had ling been parted not what he expected, and continues to be known by the name given him by his former foss ter parents. He is in a good sbun tion hare, is et devout Christian and an active mombM' OJ mis Of •^ site ,t,,r,yll aural..., 'A010thel) broytes its )teen rebitrned to •11:s parents, offer si tf 1�a memory Lilagel"5 ng absence, to help maintain his meth en ,the father now being in a sanitarium. Another of our boys is attending tsohoo] with the view of bnter'eng the ministry. The lettere receive ved from.tr 1 9 lin h• y ere helpful and inspiring •and bespeak the pegs. sibilaties that lie within ens neglect« , 1 ped oltaldren if only 'given a chanca et develop, Sabi by Graters I Canadian Pogftitii Caren Ge„ L,td.,' 41 Wlndddr, Ontario, Carlotta,