YEAR R84. NO. 134 he Daily KINGSTON, IEEE Books And Their SR THE NEW ERAIN CANADA SO was an accredited American war cor- | respondent with the German armies Toronto, | in their advance through Belgium in spice. | 1914, and he wrote most entertain- Price, gh " : ingly about it in his remarkable baok $1.50. . !"Paths of Glory." The Huns pulled This 'books "whith has just been the wool a little over his eyes then, sued, is Jade up of fixtoen e58a¥3 but he has got them wide vpen sow dealing with the ypbuilding o ©: and besides, his country is neutra Cuuadin SoumonWeaith unl a it~ ino longer. Perhaps his point of view | ed by J. E. Miller, principal of "is changed; at any rate, he is freej Jey College. i There is somthing po to express his real conclusions, and | nterest in or every reader of yj. does it Canadian affairs. Dr. McNeil, the! (opbh has seen all the horrors of Roman Catholic archbishop of To-| gar as prosecuted by the Huns, yet ronto, contributes a splendid -art- ipa is frank to say that he would cle on Wop up National hh choose war rather than that his free and declares that as a result of poli- | foljow-countrymen should be brought tical methods of to-day representa- in, nhondage of the Prussian. He tive goverument $line into Sige has no 'use to-day for the Brofession] repute. Sir Clifford Sifton points} .. ificists--"little brothers to the out in "The Foundations of the New | boo and the sheep and the guinea Era" that political parties must be pig. all of them" --is his character- forced out of the ruts of the past|i,.iion of the breed. He warns the forty years. 25d to Initiate Bilingual | States that they must risk something tive - legislation. ie } more prefious than their money; Questioh™ is impartially presented ie more needful than muni- by Prof. George Wrong, of Toronto, | one their manhood. "We cannot who remarks that it would be well, 0. England's navy to stand be- it the Canadian people would enrich! wean ys and harm for our coasts, their knowledge and enlarge their ,.4 prapnce's worn battalions te outlook by becoming themselves bi-|peyr the brunt of the trench work." lingual." Prof. Stephen Leacock, of! yy quotes at some length from MeGill, discudses 'Democracy and | book recently reviewed on this Sacial Progress" and "Our Nations! | page, "Hurrah and Hallelujah," to Organization for the War. rofl. I hrove the distorted mental attitude Frank D. Adams, of Megl, denls)qy the German preachers and profes- with "oar National Heritage : 5 F, sors. He closes his small, but ap- Sonn, A WIis0n with i Wn od | Dealing volume with the timely and § : irl " warning : A > pigieprook wite Ths Future "We entered this war not against a in the Empire"; eter Me people or a nation so much as we hh : ; -al | PeOP " : ; with "Public Opinion and Political | entered it against an idea, a disease, Lite"; J. O. Miller with The pet form of paranoia, a form of rabies, ter Government of our Cities, Abs {a form of mania which has turned Rey. -Dr. Symonds with The Out-| a) into blasphemous and murder- look For Religious Faith There | | c mad dogs, running amuck and are banking and financial articles by! go. ove in tae highways of the Sir Edmund Walker and G. Frank | © a Beer, while articles of interest to wo- "What would any intelligent Am- men are contributed by Miss oat: erican do if a mad dog entered the jory MacMurchy and Mrs. 2 street where he lived, even though Plymptre. The book contains 4211," ,,0" hefore it went mad, had been .a kind and docile creature? pages of the finest national essays | that have yet appeared. The prokits And what is-he going to do in the oxisting situation? from its sale are to go to the Can-| adian Red Cross Society. "The same answer does for both questions. Because there® is Omy one answer." J. M. Dent & Sons, lad, Publishers. " 421 Pages, THE MAN THOU GAVEST | | FRAILWAY NATIONALISATION AND THE AVERAGE CITIZEN. By Harriet T. Comstock. 303 Pages. Price, $1.35. The Musson Book Co, Toronto, Publishers, | In this volume Mrs. Comstock By William H. Moore. 181 Pages. Ce EH Authors are lawyers; their principal advisers are editors. ess. To make factory, farm or rail way pay Is seldom within either their power or their inclination. As a re- sult our state, and most states with Tepresentative government, is not suited for the administration of pure business. Party politics is the bane. Appointed commissions succumb to the bidding of thé party in power. The people get out of the govern- ment, cabinét or commission just what they put in, and nothing more. In the unchangeable spirit of monop- oly, he asserts, lies the essence of the objection to railway nationalisation. Monopoly, whether of private capital or of the state, is bad; but Mr. Moore contends that the monopoly of capital is to be preferred, for we have learned how to control it, and such control is the legitimate funec- tion of the state, There is no devise to keep state-monopoly in order, for its very nature places it beyond! check. Private capital can make no invasion upon property or rights that the commissions or the courts cannot repel. Buf public ownership is sub- ject to neither commissions of con- trol nor the courts. For example, it is pointed out that thé Intercolonial railway is not, like other railways, under the Railway Commission at Ottawa; nor is the Hydro-Electric under the public utilities commission at Toronto. "Under public-owner- ship we create tyrants and arm them with cudgels to flay our own, de- fenceless backs." Much credit is due the railways, our author asserts. They have open- ed up vast tracts of new lands, and cheapened the production of goods. He gives them credit also for the big boom in immigration to Canada, for- getting to mention that one Clifford Sifton, when Minister of the Interlor at Ottawa, carried out a vigorous and suecessful policy with this objec: in view. Our railways have afforded a substantial measure of relief to the hungry within the Mother Land from the territory made productive by the service of the new railways. These are only a few of the arguments set forth in this interesting volume, but they show the trend of the author's reasoning. He has presented his facts clearly and stated his case with writes about- the mountains of thet price, $1.35. McClelland, Good-| soath, with all their romance, their " > { clanish enmity and feud, and with a, Shae & Stewart, to, Pab. | ishers. northerner, Truedale, and a native} Nella-Rose, as the principal char-! The biggest question confronting | acters. Entwined about these this|Canada today--outside the war--is| experienced writer has produced as! the railway problem. Without fur-| entertaining a bit of fiction as has) ther government aid, two at least of | been. offered to lovers of such read-, our transcontinental railways will} ing for some time. The man whose! collapse, with disastrous results to body is strengthened by the hills and | 311jed interests and considerable whose soul is saved through the |p, to the nation's credit The Gov- loyalty of two women, one. of thejarnment Commission, after careful hills and one of the town, Is not the gi. qv of the problem, have suggested centre of the story, altaou h he 181 wo solutions, Many other sugges- the hero by title. Even thy_splen-| ... y.ve been made. The demand did city womtan whom he marries, be-| for public ownership seems to be lieving that the girl of the hills has! 3 been unworthy, . does not make the|STOWIDE. As it is now, the people pay principal appeal of the story. The! the piper but do not call the tune; hills and forests and tha little Nella-| they assume the liabilities, but have Rose whose belief in the goodness of | 10 claim on the assets. Mr. Moore's peoplé has been shattered through a DOCK is addressed to the Average cruel mistake, remain in the tiemory, Citizen who wishes to learn all the long after the more cultivated things] facts about our railway affairs. It and people of the book. There is a is a powerful argument against state tone of tragedy in the story, which,| ownership, though much, of course, | however, is delightfully offset, and! can be said on the other side. It is| the ultimate joining of paths split! also, one feels, a well-stated defence! asunder by fate is worthily accom- of one of the lame ducks--the C.N.R. | plished. } "The Man Thou Gavest" is| In fact, Mr. Moore's position is not a 'love story, and it is full of senti-| unlike that of a lawyer pleading for ment, but its sentiment, like its hills his client. However, public discus- and its women, is truthful. sion is commendable, and it is to the | credit of the author that he has shed "SPEAKING OF PRUSSIANS--" a lot of light on a vexed question. | His arguments are expressed with By Irwin S. Cobb. 80 Pages. Price,| great clearness of thought, and wé 80c. The Musson Book Co. To- must admit that he has made out a ronto, Publishers, , strong case for the cause he defends, A small book, but replete with viz, private or corporate ownership great facts. It is a terse, vigorous) under state control, and intelligent warning to the Uni-{ Mr. Moore points to-the failure of | ted States to be up and doing if she| public management of vehicular! wishes to preserve herself! and de-| highways as an unanswerable argu-| mocracy. At the same time it is a ment against the capacity of the clean exposition of the mad philoso-| pyblic to manage the steam railways. phy of the German war lord. Cobb| The principal executive officers of knows what he is writing about. He, this country's affairs, he points out, | Mr, Moore tells us that. the C.N.R. considerable cleverness. Turning to a comparison of state assistance to the various railways, fared pretty poorly as against the "The Canadian Pavific has had in cash and the equivalent of cash $108,000,000, and land grants to the value of $232,000,000, or a total free gift of $340,000,000. As- suming money tg'have an earning' power of 4 p&" cent, this means a subsidy of $13,600,000 each year. The Canadian Northern has had $38,000,000 in cash and land grants to the value of $43,000,000, or a total free gift of _$&1, 00,000." Then follows many pedSons why the C.N.R., has not yet een able to pay its way. Criticism of the C.P.R., and its presi- dent, is by no means lacking. The latter; Tt is pointed out, injured his rival in Wall Street. C. N.R. finan- ces are given in some detail, and the book ends, as it began, with a warn- ing against public ownership. The Canadian Magazine. The Canadian Magazine for June contains an illustrated article on the prominent social and patriotic wo- men of British Columbia, by Miss Mabel Durham; an article on "Can- ada's Yearly Production," by W. L. Edmonds; an illustrated sketch of Alexander Ross, one of the pioneers and leaders in early life of Selkirk, by Dr. George Bryce; an article by Lacey Amy on the English farmer's place in the war; an essay by Alfred Gordon, entitled "Comments on Can- adian Poetry"; a sketch of Mrs. Leti- tia Youmans, the first president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union; "Up the Great Lakes," a travel sketch by Randolph Carlyle, with drawings by Berthe Des Clayes And a number of clever short stories. in | Rooks of Interest for June | Arve Free Te Al Public Some Classed These < ne, Practical Agricalture--&. OC. James. Plant Propogation--M, G. Kaina The Potato---S. Fraser Home Garden--E. C. Rexford dh Tanada Mettres of War Work jn England - J. Pennell, Hunlikely--W. H. Robinson, | uermany, Land of Deepening Shadow-- | D, T. Curtin. Canada in Flanders--4lord Beaverbrook. English Biography---W. H. Duna. True heli y an Actr | The Man on Watch i Despite the high prices afid the { late spring the kids still get a big | bag of popeorn for five cents. That was an awful jolt handed out {to University avenue when an alder- | man declared that after due deliber- ) ! as a { ation he thought one would decide Eo ro iehonald. | to ride down the avenue roadway in The Printed kh, Te Adis, | preference to going to the trenches. The Folk Dunce Book--C. Wo Cramp- | 3 son, Garibaldi and Trevelyn Rrastl wt fo-lay and Tomorrow -- Lo KE. Hic. ; . Bestnoven -- R.. Rolland. History of Modern Russia--ddex Karm- = Russ 2 a. 1916---Stephen Grahame ---- no ~~. --------_ -- Why should the land of the rich {not be ploughed at the expense of | the tewn? Does Ald. Armstrong not { know his bible? "To him that hath | shall be given." the Thousand--G. aN} i How would it do to revert to Statute labor on Kingston streets in the paved area' Lots of labor i could them be secured Ald. Wi t Trellis, Plower Borders, Railings.! would have to do his "bit" on He Gates, Wire Guards, Baskets street and Ald. O'Connor his on SY custintion of wire guids many. Johnson street. 'The Lampman has no sympathy with those church people who object to Sunday gardening in these times. They might as well object to the To do good on the Sabbath was long ago decided to be right, Here's a suggestion to the "Things That Never Happen" man: After the cold storage fellows have all the eggs and butter tucked away, along will come the Government and take over the cold storage plants. The organ of the Presbyterian church seems to put little faith in the word of man. It fears that the antis may break their word alleged to have been pledged over union, and it suggests a civil war within the church. The people are so used to war now that a church row wil not fizz on them. However it will not be the first split in the Presbyterian church. |i That in the forties did great good. The Militia Department may preach ecomomy, but it does not practise it. Orders this week carry the announcement that a garrison board, presided over by a Kingston officer, would assemble in the city of Ottawa, for the purpose "of ex- amining and reporting upon a pair of boots" belonging to a gunmer of the 4th Ba | BIG CALL Stewart Lyon Says Canadians ONTARIO, British Whig SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1017 dé PAGES 1320 ° | FOR PHYSICIANS Great Need of Them on the British Front, New York, June 9.--It is because the allied armies care for a soldier as soon as possible after he is wound- ed that the medical ranks of France and England are so depleted that they are crying out for aid from Am- erican doctors, Col. T. H. Goodwin of the British War Commission told the members of the American Medical As- sociation yesterday. "The call of suffering humanity is awful," he said, and urged the sur- geons and physicians of the United States to answer the call. "Human endeavor can stand no more than these physicians are un-| dergoing," he said. "On a short sec- tion of the front there are from 20, | 000 to 30,000 wounded in a few hours battle. What is there to do?} Are we to leave them to crawl into] shell craters, to suffer for hours, per- | haps for days? Are we to rush medi-! cal men there to save them?" SERVE GUNS IN SCANT GAR | { i | f | | { | i | | Shock Any Morality Departimeat. | FIGHT IN BLAZNG HEAT FRONT LINE CANADIANS ARE/ HEAVILY SHELLED. | But They Stick It Out--With Unfal- | tering Endurance They Lie in| Holes While the Storm of Fire Rages, By Stewart Lyon | Canadian Army Headquarters, | June 8.--For once it is the purpose of the Canadian Press to spend its! money recklessly at the rate of eighty cents per word, trying to con- | vey to the people back home who are reading the war news.in.comfort on, hundreds of thousands of Canadian] verandahs what their sons and| brothers are enduring and with what | high fortitude they are holding the line. | Out on the Vimy Ride yesterday, in| the blazing heat, the gunners served their howitzers in a garb that would have shocked zwy 'morality depart- ment. They might have even been described in the society column as "full deecollete," except that they labored with good will and shelled every important peint for miles be- hind 'the German lines with heavy stuff. Great projectiles were pass- ing high overhead, carrying their burden of destruction and death. Closer, but still, fortunately, not too near, was the hiss of incoming enemy shells directed against our batteries. The dull bang of their explosion proves that they are 'wide of the mark. One the plain in front of us, about two miles at the nearest point to all this racket, on the ridge may be sen through the simmering heat the chalf, indicating plainly as though drawn on a blackboard the first trench with similar lines show- ing the other trenches. An army that operates in this region of chalf sub- soil must either take the risk of liv- ing in very shallow trenches or of disclosing his whereabouts by dig- ging into the chalk. They Stick It Out. As we look the enemy, resentful over his ejection from some of his trenches, begins a concentrated shoot upon the north end of the line. Chalk and surface brown earth spout up in great columns as the shells burst here and there, amid the red- brown smoke of the high explosive shells, is seen the grey gas. Even at this distance it is plain that our front line is geting a proper doing, and that it will need firm resolution on the part of the thousands of men in the shell area to stick it out. But they do. The plain remains empty. One would imagine that the trenches on which the enemy's fire is directed were tenantiess. €1 have been told with what unfal- tering endurance our men lay in the trenches or the funk holes scooped out in front, while the storm raged around them. Men do not think in any conected nway in the mouth of hell, but it lessens the distress of those of us who look on, unable to help, to fancy that, like the heroic Belgian King, our Canadians still posses their souls. A PERFECT MEDICINE FOR LITTLE ONES So ------ Baby's Own Tablets is the ideal medicine for little ones. { | war going ahead on the Sabbath. | Statement of the Merchants Bank of Canada as at the close of business on the | { Our important expansion in deposits (about twenty millions) has enabled { cham, Sask.; and sub-offices at Mount P ldasant, Mimico, Breslau, Douglas, Ont; The Merchants Bank of Canada 22 Proceedings at the Fifty-fourth Annual Meeting of Shareholders on June 6th, 1917. ; i 3 he Merchants Bank The fifty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Shareholders of t fer n } of Canada was held yesterday in the Board Room ut the head offices of the Bank at Montpeal. The meeting was called to order at twelve o'clock noon. Likes 5 Amdng those in attendance were: Messrs. K Ww Blackwell, Thomas « E. Amdrew A. AHan, A. J. Dawes, F. Howard Wilson, Farquhar gag Geo JL. Cains, Alfred B. Evans. E. F. Hebden, Lt.-Col. James R. Moodie, I. C. Macarow, Arthur Browning, Vivian Harcourt, John Balille, A Phidington, Edward Fe 1 T. E. Merrett, A. B. Patterson, R. 8. White, A. D. Fraser. John Putteraan. 5 A. MeDiarmid, Frederick Hague, C. E, Sprague, R Shaw, D. Rano. J D Br p= pen, W. J. Finucan, W. B. Harshaw, R. H. Arkell, J. G. Mair, H. B. Loucks, 4 i and J, M. Kilbourn. . ! ; Mela And ion of Mr. John Patterson, the vice-president. Mr KW Biask« well, in the absence of the President (Sir H. Mumtaga Allan) was asked to take chabr We Mr. J. M. Kilbourn was appointed secretary of he eating. *h tes of the last annual meeting were taken as read The anh A Mr. K. W. Blackwell, then presented the Annual Report as ollows: i f THE ANNUAL REPORT I have pleasure in submitting for your approval the Fifty fourth Annual evening of April 30th, 1917, the last day of the Bank's fiscal year submit a statement of the Profits covertag ihe same period ) IN You will observe that the profits on this occasion are larger by $50,395 42 us to very substantially increase our commercial and industrial advanges to the ma- terial improvement of our earning power, and, at the same time, "to Keep. prd-s perly strong. A study of the Balance Sheet will, I am sure, satisfy you in the atier respect. | I During the past vear we have Opendd branches at:--Alnonte, J New Toronto, Niagara Falls, Collingwood, Barry's Bay, Manitowa g. Ont. Grand Mere, Notre Dame St., Lachine Newre Dame de Grace, Que; § ney, CB. Forestburg, Nobleford, Monarch, Irma, Ohinman, 'Alta; Prussia, Prelate, Mea - I also beg to t 'embrake, Millicent, Penhold, Huxley, Galahad, Grainger, Ala; Senlac, We have closed the following offices, as unremun<rative Lorraine (sub), Alta. All the various offices have been inspeated during the past twelve months The usual Auditors' Certificate is appended AM of which is respectfully submitted Sask Battleford, Sask.: BLACKWELL, Vice-President K. Ww The Financial Statement Statement of the Result of the Business of the Bank for the Year Ended 30th April. 1917. N ; y e bate -n » Net Profits of the year, after payment of charges, reb The discounts, interest on depositts, and making full provision for bad and doubtful debts, have amounted to . $ The balance brought forward fram 20th April, 1916. was : ' Making a total of This has been disposed of as follows: Dividend No. 116, at the rate of 10 per cent Dividend No. 117, at the rate of 10 per cent. Dividend No. 118, at the rate of 10 per cent, at the rate of 10 per cent per annum $175,000.00 per annum 1 per annum pér annum 175,000. 00 Dividend No. 119, Donations to Canadian Pakriotic and Red Cross Government War Tax on Note Circulation Written off Bank Premises account . Contribution to OfMcers' Pension Fund Balance carried forward . Funds . KW E. F. HEBDEN, D.C Managing Director MACAROW, BLACKWELL, i General Manager Vice-Presidém STATEMENT OF LIABILITIES AND ASSETS _AP-30TH APRIL, 1917 LIABILITIES 1917 1916 000,000.00 §7.000.000.00 000,000.00 7,000.000,00 175,365.00 175,542.50 421,292.96 $14.599,657.96 $14,426.526.62 1--To the Shareholders Oapdtal Stock pa Rest or Roe re di ES Soltis ati £1 Dividends deckred and Gnpatd & Balance of Profits as per Profit submitted herewith ... ... . .8 7 : "and Loss 'Account EE ven wid wae wed 250,984.12 - 2--To the Public Notes of the Bank in Circulation ... Deposits not bearing interést Deposits bearing interest (including i to date of statemefit) ... .., ... ... . Palances die to other Banks in Canada ... ... ... .. Balances due to Banks and Banking Correspondents in the United Kingdom and foreign countries . Bills payable ... i... ... .....cc0s san c5e van awe Acceptances undef Letters of Credit .. Liabilities not included in the foregoing . ee. $ DAE AGS 408 T.486,906.00 sree anren ITT01,587.86 17, 181,959.18 nterest accrued ve sun . 65,000 484 32 628,863.08 54,995,069 97 163,799.39 | 3,804,690.72 8§77.388.01 TUA11,806.58 1.029,702.00 ASSETS Current Coin ... ... ... rr . sep Deposit in the Central Gosd Reserves Damin'on- Notes ... ... vo 0. oo. oo. Notes of other Banks ... ,.. Cheques on other Banks ... ... ... ... ... ... Balances due by other Banks in Canada ... ..: .. Balances due by Banks and Banking Correspondents in the United Kingdom ... ... _.. ... ... .... Balances due by Banks and Banking Correspondents Sizewhere than in Canada, and the United King- QOM oy. Lin hiv 2 Lee Dominion and Provincial Go exceeding market value ... ... ... ... Co Railway and other Bonds, Debentures and Stocks, nit exceeding market valve ... ... ... ... ... ... CanadianMun'cipal seocunitiey and Hritish, Foreign ah Colorlial public securities, other than Cana- Call Loans in Canada on Bonds, Debentures and § 3.681,854.13 1,000,000.00 106,240.25 702,006.00 2,754,968 8% 2,836.92 61,225.79 207,226.65 2,413,100.10 3,892,026.83 1.862,507.19 2.450. 446.72 3.964,251.24 5,055,106.27 11,263,196.20 4.627 863.57 5.251,321.38 BROCE 25, SUT pes sas ive vas 5.175.048 49 Call Loans elsewhere than in Canada 2,651,404.22 $ S $40,960, 456.514 Current Loans ahd Discounts in Canada (less Rebate of Interest) i Ave ey v3 Current Loans and Discounts elsewhere tha ada (less Rebate of Interest) Liabilities of customers under Let per contra vu mini Real Estate other than Bank Premises Overdue debts, estimated loss provided for Bank Premists, &t not more than cost, less amaants written off ... ... ... Deposit with the Ministe Circulatiot Fund ... ... ... ..... ... .. Other Assets not included in the foregoing ... ¥ 6€2,7T37,958.74 48,835 565.38 in Can- 377.682.42 203,125.72 ters of Credit as 'es 'ou . . 411,508.78 284,197.07 145,039.68 4617,400.23 375,000.00 125,949.02 $121.130.558.52 $96 1.029,702.00 177,188.29 | 164,363.18 | 4507.782.34) 345,000.00 138,151.22 r for the purposes of the ' K. W. BLA E. F. HEBDEN, D. C. MACAROW CKWELL. . Vice-President, Managing Director. General Manager Report of the Auditor to the Shareholders of the Merchants Bank of Canada In accordance with the provigions of Sub-Se 19 and 20 of Section 56 © the Bank Act. I report to the Shar ehulders as fol ee 3 yi than 5 ot 1 Books of Account and have examined the above Balange Sheet with the at lef OM ad wi « a Ae R the ce and With the signed returns from records of the Bank ked the cash and verified the securities of the Bank at the Chief inst the entries in regard thereto in whe of the Bank as on 30th 1917, and at a different time during the year und them 10 agree with such entries. I ve also attended at some of the | ches during the year and checked the cash nd verified the securities hel at the dates of my attendances end found then to agree with the entries in the books of the Bank with regard thereto. all the information a lauations 1 lave required." In| ons ve come er my noti been within the powers of the nk, and the above nee Sheer is er hare drawn up to exhii/y a n and Srrect Nw, Of the state of the Bank's affairs best ormation & i me, and as | n by the books of the Bank. . Yas, Sxptaatins given 10 VIVIAN HA N Montreal, ist May, 1917. The Chairman moved the adoption of Long. and it ws unani I RAHMAN Hien RCOURT, (of Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths & Co.) Auditor, "bring about a situation which would bid fair 9 be come strained | The Gener) Mamger confine] his re- marks to the stad and said "There is ane hidden yet dominant of | acter to which it is T refer to that afl-imp..- ILL portion oI Y,ur assets, the Stan. "it will be 2 mater of interest (ov } ua --and of pride, I have no doubt--ao know that from total of 571 nade wembers of the Staff of military age at the beginning of the war, 5%, or 39 rer cent, hava enlisted for Active Ser. vice and are now overseal (Groat ap- plause.) Of these, Le it said, with feel. Stay ings of the de-pest and most rosecent SOcTuw, 28, 1 one In will acy ra, Sie - bewn wWonr an many, high Nonoara Lave been won 'or Bjorous deeds In the Téld. T) these gallant young men, adipled by borrowers, the cost and anor 2 policy of moderation _ ------ ; friends and MINStaAnces, to Ass est of natrwo * nies gratefully t shouldered, a ng, unoste r important home fires great tomorrow, rejoicing at the gallant sons f hope the da * been cheerfully have thev been effectively, d "keeping burning" agains the when Canada will be iotorious return of her the Front Let us may be in the ne > at momentous day wt stant future." (Ap- plause), ~ ! Mr. Patterson expressed the appreci atin of the stockhalders for the efforis of the staff, and had no doabt recognd tion. of a tangible nature was being iv- en by the management On the maton of Messrs. John Pat. terson and Alfred Plddington, Messrs Vivian Harcourt and Gordon Tansley, of Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths and Co. were appointed auditors of the Bank, to hold office until the next general meet- ing On the motion of Messrs. A.D. Fraser and John Baillie, Messrs. John Patter. son and F. Hague were appointed scru- tineers for the election of directors It was then moved by Mr. John Pat terson, seconded by Dir Alfred Meldar- mid. that the scrutineers should cast ne ballot ti favor of the following per- sons as directors: Sir H Montagu Al x Riackwell, Tho- Orr-Lewis, Andrew A AV. C. C. Ballantyne, A. J Howard Wilsorg Farquhar i I. Cans, = Alfred RB v T. Ahearn and R. Moodie, This motion unanimously and the declared these gentlemen Directors led the business then adjourned At a Mal meeting of the Dir wstagu Allan was re K. W. Blackwel Gen of the A man may forget home, kindred, almost everything else, but he never forgets the first tim he went into a barber shop to get a shave. A AIA PA AA NAN A We Have a Nice Assortment of Pure Corn Syrup In 2-1b. tins, 5-1b. pails, and 10-lb. pails, which we are selling for one week only at the old price. E. H. BAKER Cor. Montreal and Charles St, Phone 1203. FRESH PINEAPPLES. TOMATOES Lettuce, radishes and City Dairy Milk and Cream. Thompson's Grocery Phone 387, 294 Princess COAL CUSTOMERS Please Notice ! On and after first of May Coal Sales will be for Cash Only. BOOTH & CO. Phone 133. IMPERIAL LIFE According to the Dominion Goverdment basin of reserves, The Imperial Life's total surplus funds amount te 1.05, or move than 26 per cent. of the leo- gal reserve. This in hundreds of thousands of dolinry in excess of the surplus of any other Cana- diss company at the same period of itn history.