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: RETURN ON INDUSTRIALS GREATER "THAN FROM ALMOST ANY OTHER CLASS OF BOND. LE Bonds Usually Fairly Easily: Marketed © .and Have Fair Prospects of Apprediat: Ing In" Value--industrial Price Flustu "ations Depend on Outlook for Business Conditions. ------ - Soniributed 2a "Investor" (By "Investor.") While, a8 we have 'seen, the safety of industrial bonds waries very considerably. ort out, ra; 'from the highly speculative--in the omse Medium | of mining companies-to the, relatively, 10 141-90; | very "ocqmservative, where the valus of £ Breaktast bon, 6 fo 18nd 'equals or 'exceeds the amount of R00, 2:0 | the bond issue, the Fate' of income does Ho} bn tos pails, | not, as & rule, vary greatly. Of course, (| the met return on the amount of the investment in. Black Lake: asbes- | tossbonds at the present time cannot be far short of 23 per cent. (one cannot 'speak' with accuracy as the makers of any bond income table that the writer has seen did not contemplate such & huge ag return: on 'bonds).' "Outside "of this, wo Barley, Man. |... coll hope, unique instance, the. return xX "| varies about as that on munieipals with the very important difference, that the Spring wheat, patents, firsts, $6.40; seo: basis. of comparison is about a point: Suds, $5.40; strong bakere', $4.90; ides higher... The average net return on .in- ts, Sholek. 15, to $63; straight rol: dustrials {8 higher for equal security ! than that fipon any other form of fund. '| ed. corporate obligation, ~¥his constitutes one of the chief ad: A second point in faver of: "Industri: ala" ja their marketability. Not all in- bonds. possess this advantage, . .degres at least it depends 'on thie policy of the issuing house, As a .. however, 'an 'issue' which 'could be Tecommended 10 a careful investor possess 'the very Aistinet advant- of being readily marketable. Om other band, many very well pecnr- and otherwise 'desirable industrial 5 are dificult to market. It 1s" dm The | suggested that the = Secretary serve | @ach society = should Conmunioae Mr. J. Lockie Wilson Says They May B° Obtained From a Carleton Farm. A despatch from Toronto says: Arrangements' are being made by Mr. J. Lockie Wilson, Buperinten- dent of Agricultural' and Hortioul- ieties, for agricultural so- troughout the Province to 'quantities of pedigree anner oats from a farmer in Car- . leton county, whose grain has been all' grain is 'properly bagged and sealed and a tag. will be attached to each bag; with full instructions as to the best methods of cultivat- ing. It is expeoted that by this means, as well as through the in fluence of the standing field crop competitions, Ontario will come to be known as the place where the" best seed in the Dominion can be carefully watched by the Canadian | procu It is of -growers' Association. with Mr. Wilson. 'or his Depart- ment at the Parliament buildings. Mr. L. H. Néwman of Ottawa, Sec: retary of the Canadian Seed-grow- ers' 'Association, has promised. that he or some of his staff will see that red. Much gratification is felt by the Department over the fact that this year is the first since the standing field 'crop competitions' were 'start- ed, in' 1907, in which -the expert judges haye been unable to discov- er a single seed OF wild oats in all the large exhibit of oats at the Guelph Winter Fair. alon of business and credit, as similar conditions do with our American cousing in the States, our industrial bond prices do not fluctiate so violently. . On the whole, there has ' beeén more up than down in Canadian price movements so far. sere Roo MONTREAL TERMINALS, The Canadian Northern Plans an Elaborate System. A 'despatch from "Montreal says: The plans of the Canadian North- ern Railway for entry into Mont- real have just been made public, The total cost will be in the neigh- borhood of $25,000,000; and will re- quire three years to complete. A BRAVE RESCUE. -- A Montreal Painter Saves Two Children at Risk of His Life. A despateh from Montreal says: Fire broke out on Thursday morn- ing at 890 City Hall avenue, Frank Resnicks, a painter, saw the flames; rushed into the house and rescued two children, who had been left in the blazing dwelling by their grand- mother in her excitement. Res: nicks' hair and moustache were 'burned off. 'He is receiving much praise for the rescue, as tlie place was a» mass of flames. The pro- perty loss was only $2,000. LOCKOUT IN BRITISH MILLS Action of Employers Affects 300,000 Work- ars of Lancashire, from. Manchester, | Eng; says: The refusal of one man A despatch and. two women to join a trades union, coupled with the decision of the Master Cotton Spinners to close »| their mills' three days in the week, at| ¢aused a complete stoppage of a day. great portion of the cotton mills in northeast Lancashire 'on Wednes- evening. . Efforts: are already ob to bring about a asttlcment, 110 The lockout involves 180,000 weav- ers, and pearly an equal number of spinners will be reduced to half pay. Unfortunately there are indi- 'cations Breads of probable compli= cations throug ihe introduction of f the troublesome 'question of 'wages. This move has been taken by the weavers, who 'that. as the Jgekout the | has been decided upon they intend 'to make an advance of five Jet.