64, which is practically the middle of Saskatchewan, the Province has been divided for statistical purâ€" poses into nine crop district-s. as nearly as possible uniform in size. The ,area. of tlicTse districts is 86,- 826,240 acres, and the crop area in them in 1911 was 8,602,455, or 9.8 per cent. of their total area. The “inn iDRflNiU iEilER _ â€"~ A Real Estate Mortgage Bond {1. \1 WHAT IS INTERESTING THE PEOPLE AT THE HUB. ‘The Titanic catastropheâ€"or. Nesbltt Againâ€"Legislature Proroguedâ€"Bi- lingual School Question. ‘ Not since the days of the South African war has the city spent such sombre days as the week following the foundering of {the Titanic. This. in spite of the fact that the personal touch was almost entirely lacking because with one or two excep- - tions Toronto citizens were. nrt III dau- ger. In Montreal and in Winnipeg it was «different. But the announcement of the almost in- rconeeivablc catastrophe, the days of sus- pense. and at last the harrowing (Nails sobercd and oppressed the whole popula- tion. In the clubs men talked and acted as though there was a funeral in the (premises. Everywhere that people met ittle else was discussed. Even the amusement places lost much of their spontaneity and gayety. And such evi- dences of feeling are not to be wondered .at. for history contains few more. piti- ‘able events than the wreck of the Titanic. I . DR. NESBITT AGAIN IN LIMELIGHT. After a total eclipse of some sixteen months. Dr. Bcattie Nesbitt is back in the limelight. The marvel is that he was able to keep in the background so long. For while there are many things about the rotund doctor that are difï¬cult to understand. the one thing that is patcn; about his character to everyone is thatlie dearly loves publicity. The doctor has always been somewhat of an enigma, even in Toronto, where he is known best. Opinions as ’(0 his abil< ity vary all the way from that which believes him to be a genius under an unlucky star to that which dubs him as a vastly overrated mediocrity. But Nesbitt knew how to keep in the public eye. He managed to make friends among the news- paper mcn. He could whet. curiosity by a Sphinx-like silence. and could rush into print with some pronouncement. just at the, moment when it would get him the most attention. Some people who came in contact with him describe him as dis- . agreeable and offensive. To o:hers he appeared as something’of a buffcon. And it must be said that. many of his actions 'both in the past and in the present chap- ter of his autobiography resemble the acts of a character out of a comic opera. THE LEGISLATURE PROROGUED. Prorogation comes as a sort of anti- -climax to the excitement of the session. this year furnishing no exception. True. :3. function of state it was with all the trappings. The Lieutenant Governor at- tended in state. which means that he wore .a cocked hat. and his most. brillian: uni. form. and that he was attended by a military escort, and that cautions were fired. but the event was less exciting 1118.11 an afternoon tea. Most of the members of the Legislature were far away. busy with the spring seeding and the 'other private affairs which have had to take pot luck during the session. It was with difï¬culty that a (quorum could be mustered. But finally, with the Cabinet ministers, the members for Toronto. a few others who reside here and an odd one who was detained for bird': seed duh afresh with the need you have been using. then put some of BROCK‘S wi t h i n reach. and see how quickly Dick pick: but "Brook's". . Food him for a month on Brook’s Bird Seed “~13: him color the cake of Brook'- Bird Trout that comes in every box- and notice the improvement in his plumage. health and song. Lot "Dick" try this bird Tonic at our expense. Mail us the coupon below. filled in. and we will send you. _ - absolutely free. two full-size cakes of . ‘ ' Brock's Bird Treat. 45 . 1‘: NICHOLSON 6: BROCK 9-11 Francis St.. Toronto. For this coupon please send me, free of charge or obligation on my part. two full size cakes of Block's Bird Treat. and oblige. LAWN MOWER adds to the pleasure of possessing "a well kept lawn" You‘ll notice the difference In the Maxwell Lawn Mower the first time you cut the 55 with it. Crumble Steel Cutter Knives out clean and close, and hold their edge. Cold rolled steel shafts mean easy running. The whole mower is so compact. so strong and perfectl balanced. that putting the lawn s a Iig t,pleasant exertise. that you will really enjoy. Made in 4 styles siges from8"io 22†in width -â€" with and / Without ss-catch~ - ing attae iment. Your hardware man probably hasnll Size: in Maxwell‘s Lawn Mowersâ€"if not he can get it for you. I n s l s t on _ M axw e l i . W rite us David Hun! Secured on Central City Real Estate valued at over 331.506,.000. The total mortgage indebtedness against this property is only 40% of the valuation. The Bonds are issued in denominations of $500 and $1,000 each and will pay the investor 6%%. Write for full particulars. Murray, Mather»& 00. Toronto General Trusts Building Toronto I some special reason, the legal require- ments were fulï¬lled. - - The lack of interest on the part of the members was in striking contrast to the busy days of the concluding week of ac- tual work when the Legislziture. as is the way of all Parliaments under govern- ments of all parties. forced through a month's business in six days. At the be- ginning of a session scant fifteen minute Sittings were not uncommon. At the end the House met at ten o'clock in the morn- eussion on contentious matters being ting and continued far into the night, dis~ shortened or eliminated by more physical weariness. THE CEREMONY. Prayers over, enters the Lieutenant Governor. attended by his aides. The Lieutenant Governor symbolizes his Ma- jesty the King. and the moment is duly impressive. His Honor mounts the Speaker's dais. The Clerk of the House. Mr. A. II. Sydere, a veteran of many years' service. reads a list of the bills that have been passed during the ses- sion. His Honor nods assent. "In His Majesty's name," announces the Clerk. “his Honor doth assent to these bills." A similar ceremony in regard to the supply bills or votes of money for .the carrying on of government takes but. a moment. Next his Honor reads the Speech from the Throne. a brief review of the more important legislation with thanks to the members for their attendance and efforni. It is always a mystery as to who writes the Speech from the Throne. The Pro- vincial Secretary. Hon. W. J. Hanna. is credited by some with preparing it, but a Lieutenant Governor. like Sir John Gibson, who has himself been through the mill. might write it himself. perhaps con- sulting with the Premier as to its con- tents. ‘ Finally, the speech concluded, his Honor glances at Mr. Hanna. who announced that “it is his Honor's will and pleasure that this Legislative Assembly be pro- rogued. and this Legislative Assembly is accordingly prorogucd." Exit the Lieutenant Governor, and the session is at an end. THE BILINGUAL PROBLEM. ' 0f the_pronouncement of Sir James Whitney on the bilingual school question there is satisfaction expressed by his sup- porters. while his opponents say that while his professions seem all right it is only energy and sincerity in carrying out those professions that can remedy the evil. There is no doubt that the condi- tions of inefï¬ciency and consequent grow- ing illiteracy revealed by the Govern- ment's Commission, Dr. F. W. Merchant, came as a surprise and a. shock ".0 near- lv everybody. When that report is read in conjunction with the ofï¬cial census ï¬gures shortly to be announced, showing the increase in the French population of Ontario it will be fully realized what a tremendous educational problem the Province has on its hands. The issue lies principally in the eastern counties and in. New Ontario. In Essex and Kent, where the French colony dates back to the earliest times, the popula- tion is not increasing so rapidly, pos- sibly because Detroit helps draw off the surplus population.-- But in Giengarry. Stormont. Prescott and Carleton counties there is a steady exodus of Anglo Saxons and a steady increase in French. while along the C. P. It. in Nipissing and Al- goma the. French settlers largely pre- dominate. in many townships. It is esti- mated that as compared with 150,000 in 1900. the census figures for 1910 will show 250.000 French-Canadians in Ontario. This is in marked contrast to the figures corn- Iwrimr the, Anglo Saxon rural population lot Ontario at the same dates. V -_.__.__.Pa._, 200.000.000 BUSHELS. Canada‘s Immense Wheat Will ’I‘ax Railways. If the bankers are able during ithe next few years to keep "pace. lwit-h the enormous growth of the iWcstei‘n wheat crop the railroads Eare still likely to have a problem lupon their steel. Many thousands :of miles of new track are being 5built this year in order to help re- llieve the congestion each fall in carting the crop to the seaboard. ;A prominent official of the Cana- :dian Paciï¬c Railway states that in ,(lue time that road will be double- ‘tracked from Winnipeg to the coast ‘to lessen the Eastern traffic. The {Canadian Northern and the Grand iTrunk Railways are also doing lmuch to cope with the big crops to Memeâ€"200,000,000 bushels are ant-i- E‘cipatcd this fall. This is a reason- ?able estimate in view of the fact jthat. despite bad weather, 180,000,- ‘000 bushels were grown last year, {although much of it- was of the low- ler grades. In the old portion of Manitoba [there are about 47,000,000 acres of iland, with 33,000,000 acres good Crop ‘ gamble land. The area under culti- area of arable land in the nine crop districts is estimated to be not less than 57,884,160 acres. The total area under cultivation is 13,169.235, or 15.16 per cent. of the area of the districts referred to. -In Alberta there are approxi- mately 100,000,000 acres of arable land, and of this area about 2,250,- 000 acres are under cultivation and occupied by farm buildings. There. are thus immense crop posâ€" sibilities, and the recent estimate that in 1920 we shall grow in West- ern Canada over 500,000,000 bush- els of wheat, does not seem to be exaggerated. Last year more. than 9,000,000 acres were sown to wheat in the West. These facts and ï¬g- ures show to some extent why the railroads are laying down steel as fast as labor conditions will allow. -â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"-â€">l‘ SPRING BLOOD IS WATERY BLOOD How to Get Neï¬ealth and, New Strength at 'ihis Season Spring ailments are not imagin- ary. Even the most robust ï¬nd the Winter months most trying to their health. Conï¬nement indoors, of- ten in overheated and nearly always badly ventilated roomsâ€"in the home, the ofï¬ce, the shop and the schoolâ€"taxes the vitality of even the strongest. The blood becomes thin and watery and is clogged with impurities. Some people have head- aches and a. feeling of langonr. Others are low-spirited and new- 0115. Still others are trouble-d with disï¬guring pimples and skin erupâ€" tions, while. some get up in the morning feeling just as tired as when they went to bed. These are all spring symptoms that the blood is out of order and that a medicine is needed. Many people take pur- gative medicines in the spring. This is a serious mistake. You can- not cure yourself with a medicine that gallops through your system and leaves you weaker still. This is all that a purgative does. What you need to give you health and strength in the spring is a. tonic medicine that will enrich the blood and soothe the jangled nerves. And the one always reliable tonic and blood builder is Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. These pills not only banish spring weakness, but guard you against the more serious ailments that follow, such as anaemia, nerv- ous debility, indigestion, rheuma- tism, and other diseases due to bad blood. In proof of this Mrs. Emma Duck, Carleton Place, Ont., says: “I was greatly troubled with weak spells, dizziness and extreme nervâ€" ousness, and did not ï¬nd anything to help me until acting on the ad- vice of an aunt I began the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink 'Pills. After using ï¬ve boxes I found my health fully restored. and cheerfully commend the pills to others.†If you are ailing this spring you cannot afford, in your own inter- est, to overlook so valuable a medi- cine as Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. Sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr.’ Williams’ Medicine 00., Brockville, Out. 1‘8- GAVE HERSELF AWAY. Miss Five O’CIOLK Tea--“Hav_e you heard the latest on Alice? She goes to church so seldom that last Sunday. when the contribution plate was passed. she said to,the usher: ‘Not 1), any more, you. \ DIFFERENT KINDS :/ Wm of Goods ll ‘ ~ II p 'n-r thankl MAKING SAFUNVESIMENIS HOW INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES MAY BE CLASSIFIED WHEN CONSIDERING THEIR SHARES. Industrial Shares are Scarcely High Class Investments, and Some are Very Danger- . ousâ€"-Constant Vigilance Price of Such Investmentâ€"Preferred Shares Good Business Investment. The articles contributed by "Investor" are .for the sole purpose of guiding pros. pective investors. and. if possible. of sev- ing them from losing money through placing it in “wild-cat" enterprises. The impartial and reliable character of the information may be relied upon. The writer of these articles and the publisher of this paper have no interests to serve in connection. with this matter other than those of the reader. (By "Investor.") Industrial stocks have the name of be- ing particularly unfit and unsafe for in- vestments. Without any qualification whatever a certain type of investor bland- ly wipes them off the slate of investment possibilities. , Of course. this sort of thing is just as foolish as the attitude of the mining stock wild-cat who generously re- fers to .all mining shares as “invest- ments,†a thing which in the nature of things is an extremely remote possibility. In the ï¬rst place. industrial companies should be carefully classified. For my own purposes I have divided them rough- ly into the following: (1.) Companies producing necessaries of life. such as flour milling companies. (2.) Companies producing requirements for our large and essential enterprises, as car factories, locomotive works, coal min- ing companies. etc. (3.) Those making machines for use in agriculture, like ploughs. threshers. trac- tion engines and, of course, the small garden tools. (4.) Iron and steel companies and those fabricating basic iron products into other higher products, such as the Canada Foundry Company. which produces struc- tural steel, etc. (5.) Companies manufacturing supplies whose product is somewhat of a luxuryâ€" for example. those making plumber sup- plies, asbestos products (used in building), etc. " . (6.) Those making semi-luxuries, break- fast foods (or fads) automobiles for plea- sure (apparently the commercial motor has come to stay. and may be classed differentIY). bicycles, etc. (7.) Companies making luxuries, (8.) Companies manufacturing patent ar- ticles like safety razors, patent medicines, etc. Now this classiï¬cation is a decidedly rough-and-rcady affair, which any inves- tor can probably improve on without much trouble. but I have found it quite useful. It is arranged so that the first is the most stable, while the last is highly precarious. Like most rules, however, this one has many exceptions, and one must necessar- ily look for them carefully. For example. the Shredded Wheat Company would come under (6), but it makes a product which the experience of a long period has shown to be almost as stable as flour. In examining industrial stocks for in- vestment or speculation one must bear in mind that there is usually a certain amount of chance involved. The com- pany’s statement will show whether or not there are any bonds outstanding. If there are it. lessens the security behind the stock, but also adds a feeling of con- ï¬dence. owing to the fact that to make a successful issue of bonds there must be something substantial about the com- pany. Another thing to note is as to whether there is too much money borrowed from the banks in the business. If this amount less bills receivable is substantial, as com- pared with the total value of the com- panies' assets, it is not a good sign. In brief. one must watch everything with a jealous eye. For the investor who wants to take a certain amount of business chance, in- dustrial preferred shares show many at. tractions. They pay a high rateâ€"usually 7 per cent. They usually sell something above par and they are more protected from the misfortunes'of hard times than are the ordinary shares. The history of preferred shares in Canada has been in the long run satisfactory. making due al- lowance. of course. for the Amalgamated and Black Lake Asbestos flascos. PERFECT BAKING RESULTS CONTAINS NO ALUM i ! :EWGILLET’EI .COMPANYI .14 1M TORONTOVON'I‘. iliilim i. There is one important point for the. in- dustrial stock investor to bear in mind. which is. that he must at all times be vigilant to watch for alterations in busi< ness conditions: for on business conditions practically alone does the success of the more precarious companies depend, while on business conditions rests part' of the dividend on the commoner shares ofâ€"in many instancesâ€"even the most stable companies. A series of had years may easily conspire to cut. off the dividends of not a few of our soundeat companies. During 1907. for example. Canadian Gen- eral Electric found it necessary to cut. its dividend from 10 per cent. to 7 per cent. Of course. the products of the General Electric are in some degree luxuries. which people do without during' periods of trade depression. 5... .714 TO SAFEGUARD POISONS. One woman has had an inspira- tion and has practically put the “sting of death†upon all bottles holding poisons that for domestic reasons are required to be kept in the house. Two common pins are run sidewisc through the cork, op- posite each other, with the pin points extending past the heads of the pin about one-eighth of an inch. The pins give warning immediately of its deadly centents if the bottle is touched day or night, so no “taken by mistake†tragedies are apt to occur in that household. Of course, all of the members of the household are told" of this safe- guard, and the bottles are kept on a high shelf out of the. reach of children who have not yet reached the age of understanding. . Coal-mines cannot be worked to a greater depth than 4,000 feet, be- cause of the high temperature that prevails. _;k u \_. itching and hurting on face sailboat Sores Disï¬gured 30 He Dreaded to Appear in Public. No Best Nightor Day. Cuticura Ointmcn’: Sured. “Six months ago my face and throat all broke out and turned into a. running sore I did not bother about it at ï¬rst, but in one week's time the disease had spread so rapidly over my face and throat and the burning itching sores became so painful that I began to seek relief in different medicines, but none seemed to give me any relief. The sores disfigured my face to such an extent that I dreaded to appear in public. “I suffered terribly and could get no rest night or day. At last a friend advised mo to try the Cuticura Remedies. I had about given up hope, but thought I would have one more try, and so I used a little Cuticura Ointment, and it helped me from the start. I continued using it and in six weeks' time was completely cured, and can say I would advise anyone suffering from skin disease to use Cuticura Ointment, as it is the best healing balm in the world." (Signed) Roscoe Good, Seven Persons, Alta... Feb. 18, 1911. FOUND RELIEF oNLv FROM CUTlCURA SOAP AND OlNTMEN’l “My little girl when only a few weeks old broke Out on the top of her head and it be- came a solid scab. 'l‘hen her cheeks became raw and sore and after trying different remedies found relief only from using Cuti- cura. Soap and Ointment. It lasted sir: months or more, but after a thorough treat- ment with the Cuiicui'u. Soap and Ointment “never had any return." (Signed) Mrs. W. S. Owen, Yadlu’n College, N. 0., May 20, 1011. For more than a generation Cutlcura Soap and Ointment have afforded the most sucâ€" cessful treatment for skin and scalp troubles of infants, children and adults. A single cake of Cuticura Soap and box of Cllticura Oint- ment are often snilicicnt. Although sold by druggisis and dealers throughout the world, a liberal sample of each, with 32-1). book on the skin, will be Sent free, on application to Better Drug 6.: Chem. Corp., in Columbus awn. Boston, U. S. A. An Absolutely. Safe 6X Investment «1 The First Mortgage Bonds of Price Bros. & Company 6 per cent. on the invest- ment---secured by ï¬rst mortgage on one of the ï¬nest paper mills and over four million acres of the best’pulp and timber land in America---insured with 1.10de, of London, England, against men-Oder a most attractive investment. The present net earnings of the Company are sufficient to pay the bond interest twice over. The growing demand for pulpwood is yearly increasing the value of the Company’s properties. These bonds have been purchased by the best informed ï¬nanciers in both Canada and England. At their present price they yield 6 per cent interest. Considering security, earnings, assets, and the likelihood of appreciation in value, Price Bros. & Company bonds constitute an exceptional investment. Write for full deseription of these bonds, é‘EcURITiEs {ya-tion is only 6,500,000 acres. 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