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he volume of a es a ions for new insurafice 'during 1916 Ba an far the Greatest in the History of the Company. evidence of public esteem. That :is the best Let us send you some Srosh Insurance faots CROWN LIFE INSURANCE ©O., TORONTO Agents wanted In 'unrepresented districts 600 SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVES 2] ~ LOST WHEN TRANSPORT SUNK Collided With Another Vessel Off the Isle of Wight While En Route to France. A despatch from London says: The British transport Mendi, carrying South African native laborers, was sunk after a collision on Feb. 21, and 625 persons'lost their lives, Ten of the persons lost were Euro- - peans, according to the announcement on Friday to the South African Par- liament by Gen. Louis Botha, the Pre- mier. The collision occurred off the Isle of Wight. The official announce- ment says: "Premier Botha stated to the South African Parliament on Friday that the transport Mendi, carrying the last {batch of the South African native la- borers contingent (the rest of whom | were landed safely in France), collid- ed with another vessel en route from England to Havre and sank in 25 minutes. The collision occurred off the Isle of Wight on Feb. 21. The escort's seachlight could not penetrate the fog, but the survivors were res- cued by passing vessels, Twelve Eu- ropean officers and 191 natives w saved. Ten European and 615 natives were lost. Difficulty in obtaining au- { thentic information caused the delay in making the announcement public." Drink Hot Water With Meals To Stop Stomach Disorders A Physician's Advice Thousands of unfortunate people suffer almost daily from dyspepsia, indigestion, fermentation, sour acid stomach, flatu- lence, gases or distress after eating. If they would only form the agreeable habit of slowly drinking with each meal a glassful of hot water containing a half teaspoonful of pure bisurated magnesia they would soon find their stomach so strengthened and improved that they could eat the richest and most satisfying meals without the least symptom of in- digestion. Nearly all so called digestive troubles are caused by an excess of acid and an insufficient blood supply in the stomach causing the food to ferment and sour be- fore digestion can take place. A glass of hot water will draw the blood to the stomach and the bisurated magnesia will neutralize the stomach acids and make the food contents bland and sweet. Easy, natural digestion without distress of any kind is the result. Bisurated Magnesia is not a laxative, is harmless, pleasant and easy to take and can be obtained from any local druggist. Do hot confuse Bisurated Magnesia with otlier forms of magnesia--milks, citrates, etc., but get it in the pure bisurated form (powder or tablets) especially prepared for this pur- pose. eps GERMAN PEACE TERMS READ LIKE A JOKE A despatch from Havre says:--The German Government, according to in- formation received here through con- fidential agents, is considering the publication of Germany's terms of peace. Under these terms, Belgium would be declared independent, sub- ject only to permanent German gar- risons at Antwerp, Liege and Namur, and to the control by Germany of ports and railways. Belgium, under the terms, would have no national army, but would be policed by a gen- darmerie. CANADA BUSY BUILDING SHIPS Shortage of Ocean Tonnage Results in Increased Activity. A despatch from Ottawa says:-- Shortage of ocean tonnage and con- sequent high charter rates have re- sulted in increased activity in ship- yards in Canada with a probability of still greater activity in the near future. Reports so far received here indicate that more than one hundred vessels ranging in size from 250 tons to 6,000 tons steamships are now under construction, Sailing vessels are being built on the coast of West- ern Nova Scotia. Indeed it is stated that many yards in the Maritime Provinces which had been idle since steam replaced sail have now ships on the stocks. Polson and Thor Companies are re- and there is activity in shipyards at Port Arthur, and on the Pacific coast. Norwegian capital is said to be inter- ested in steamers now in course of construction. $21,000,000 IS TOTAL OF PATRIOTIC FUND. A despatch from Montreal says: The Canadian Patriotic Fund, includ- ing Montreal's cash subscriptions, has reached the total of $21,000,000, so Sir Herbert Ames announced here on Fri- day. The Montreal City Council has not yet decided on the a t of its grant to the fund. PARENTS KILL THEIR CHILDREN T0 PREVENT THEM STARVING Terrible Conditions Among Prussian Poor Are Described by Boe A despatch from London says :-- ! people is increasing at a terrible rate, ®Thus far only fragmentary reports of the remarkable debate in the Prussian Diet on the food crisis have been printed In the German newspapers," says a despatch from Reuter's Am- sterdam 'correspondent. "The Vor- waerts, recelved Friday, contains the following passage from the speech of Herr Hofer (a Socialist member of the Prussian Diet) : * Socialist Member in Speech in Diet. "'The mortality among elderly while epidemics are spreading everys where owing to the decreased powers of resistance. The situation is much more serious. than has been admitted. The number of suicides is increasing, and parents are killing their children owing to their inability to obtain food for them. Yet the price of potatoes, which long ago became generally scarce, 1s to be increased.' " The Doings of the 'Canadian Western, No. 2, 7 8, 76 to 76¢c: extra No. 1 feed, 75 to 76c. are in the majority and most of them Eg ported to be building steel steamers |% Ae oints only. American carnNo. 3 yellow, $1.213, u to em . : ee oats 0. 2 white, 65 to 67c, nominal; No. 8 white, 64 to 66¢, nomi- nal, according to freights outside. ntario wheat---No. 2 Winter, per car lot. $1.84 to $1.86; No. 8, do., $1.82 to $1.84, according to freights outside. Py No. 2, $2. to eas -- 3 50, agcording freights outside. arley--Malting, $1.22 to $1.24. : t Buckwheat--3155, nominal, according 0 fre Ss outside. y ye No. 2 4 to $1.43, according to ights ou e. - ; font iops flour--First patents, in jute bags, $9.70; second patents, in jute bags, $10; strong bakers', in jute ) 3 Toronto. Winter, according to ere ur wan. track Toronto, 66, A sample, $7.65, in bags, Jack % Prompt Shipment; export grade. : Titeed--Car lots. delivered Montreal freights, bags included---Bran, per ton, 38; shorts, per ton, $42; feed our, per bag, $2.70 to $2.80. Hay--Extra No. 2, per ton, $12 to 12.60; mixed, per ton. $9 to, §11, track 'oronto. . os Btraw--Car lots, per ton, $8.50 to $9, track Toronto. Country Produce--Wholesale. .. Butter--Fresh dairy, choice, 87 to 3%; creamery prints, 43 to 46c; solids, 4 to _43c. Eezs--Now-lald, in Soe, 45 to 46c; out of cartons, 42 to 43c. Dressed poultry--Chickens, 23 to 26c; fowl, to 22c; Bquabs, per doz, § 28 to 33c; Live i Xow: tarma 25) (0 20; twine Cheese--New, large, 3 3 26 to 2630; triplets, 263 to 26ic; old, large, 27§c; twins, 27% to 28c. Honey--White clover, 2§-1b. tins, 14 to H 184 to 14c; 10-1b, 13 to ., 128 to 13c; buckwheat, 60- Ry SE ui $2.76; fine and heavy weight, pe oy 76; select, $2.60 to $2.75; No. 2, $2 to $2.25. Beans--Imported, hand-picked, $6.26; Canadian, hand-picked } dian primes, $6.5 's to 18c. bush., 3.00; imas, per 1b., 12 bush., $7.00; Provisions--Wholesale. Smoked meats--Hams, medium, 26 to 27c; do. heavy, 238 to 24c; cooked, 87 to 88c; rolls, 21 to 22c; breakfast bacon, 27 to 290; backs, plain, 30 to 31c; bone- less, 33 to 84c. Lard--Pure lard, tlerces, 22 to 22jc; tubs, 22% to 224c; pails, 22§ to 23%c; compound, 17% to 173c. Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 18 to 184c per 1b; clear bellies, 18 to 18jc. Montreal Markets. Montreal, Mar. 13.--Corn--American No. 2 yellow, $1.30 to $1.35. Oats-- 7 to 78c; No. Flour--Mani- Barley--Malting, $1.35. 5 9.80; toba Spring wheat patents, firsts, seconds, $9.30; strong bakers', Winter patents, choice, $9.25; rollers, fix to § 0 $1.28. ll go., bags, $36.00 10'$38.00 iddlings, $45.00 to $50.00, car lots, § 8 Finest westerns, 26} to 27¢c; finest east- erns, 25% to 26c. Butter--Cholcest creamery, 433 to 44c; seconds, 40 to 42c. g8--Fresh, 48 to 44c. Potatoes--Per bag, car lots, $3.00 to $3.50. Mouillie-- 2, per ton, heese-- Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg, Mar. 13--Cash prices : Wheat--No. 1 Northern. $1.874; No. 2 Northern, $1.84; No. 4, 8 Two yards at Toronto, those of the 1% 4 United States Markets. Minneapolis, Mar. 18.--Wheat--May, $388k: uly, $1.81; cash--No. 1 hard. 2.07% to $2.09%; No. 1 Northern, $1.96 to $2,034; No. 2, do, $1.94} to $3.024. Corn--No. 8 yellow, 1.05%. Oats--No, our-- unchanged. 4 D Wheat--No. 1 hard, $1.963; No. 1 Northern, $1963: No. 2, do, $1.89% to §1.913; May, $1.89% asked; July, $1.81% asked. Linseed--To arrive, $2.89; May, $2.91; July, $2.92. to 9c. Live Btock Markets. Toronto, March 13.--Cholce heavy steers, $10.75 to $11.25; do., good, $10.10 to $10.50; butchers' cattle, choice, $10.26 to $10.60; do., good, $9.90 $10.10; do., medium, $9.50 to $0.75; do. common, $§ to $8.90; butchers' bulls, choice, $9.75 to 10.25; do., good bulls, $8.90 to $9.00; 0., medium bulls, $7.40 to $8.00; do., rough bulls, $6 to $5.25; butchers' cows, choice, $9.50 to $10; do. good, $8.60 to 8.85; do., medium, $7 to $7.26; canners milkers, to i do.. ny ed., each. to § rine: ers, $50 to $110; Ught ewes, $10 to $10.75; sheep, heavy, $8.60 to $9.50; calves, good to choice, $12 'to $18; lambs, choice, $14.26 to $16; do. medium, $10 to $12: hogs. fed and watered. $15.75 to $16: do. eighed off cars, $16.10; do., f.0.b., $14.75 0 .90. Montreal, Mar. 18.--Cholce steers, J good, $8 to $10; choice cows and $9; good cows and bulls, $68 to $8.50; canners' bulls, $5 to $6: cammers' bulls, $5; calves, choice milk-fed, $12 to $14: others. $6 to $8; sheep, $8 to 10; lambs, $12 to $18; choice select 5 A oft cars, $15.50 to $15.76; sows, COUNT zEPPERI; REPORTED DEAD A despatch from London says :-- According to a Berlin telegram trans- mitted by Reuter's Amsterdam cor- respondent, Count Zeppelin died on Thursday forenoon at Charlottenburg, near Berlin, from inflammation of the ach | lungs. 1 feed, y 1 delivered en route Se; | Comb honey--extra | | New CANADIAN WAR LoaN TORONTO - . | The Safest and Best Investment Possible to Obtain. These securities are always sale- able and we are ready to purch- ase at any time. Without charge we give best at- tention to all placed through us. applications JFull particulars and Subscription Forms furnished on Application Write, Telegraph or Telephone us at our expense. "W. A. Mackenzie & Co. WINNIPEG 10 RUSH WORK OF ARMING SHIPS Rights of Americans to Freedom +of the Seas to be Protected. A despatch from Washington says: 10; { --President Wilson on Frids ; ordered '(the arming of American merchant' ! ships against Germany's ruthless sub- 'and transport facilities, marine warfare, and at the same time issued a proclamation calling an extra session of Congress to meet April 16th. ° The President's decision came sud- denly late on Friday afternoon, fol- lowing the action of the Senate on Thursday in revising its rules to per- mit prompt action on important ques- tions and the submission of formal opinion by Secretary of State Lansing and Attorney-General Gregory that he has the power to arm. merchant- : men without-action by Congress. Details of the Government's armed neutrality plans for defending the merchant marine were withheld to avoid el ing Americans and their ships by permitting the informa- tion to reach Germany, The only CE TL a Navy Department was that the Presi- dent was detesnined to fully protect American rights, Semel em------ BELGIAN INDUSTRIES ARE TO BE SHUT DOWN A despatch from Amsterdam says: --The Telegraaf says there will be an almost plete st f ind in Belgium within ppag Vv. a few days, the , German authorities asserting that this is necessary owing to the lack of coal Practically the entire population of Belgium will be thus unemployed, with such few ex- ceptions as receive special permission from the civil authorities to continue. their businesses. ---------- 5 5,000 FORESTERS WANTED, More Canadians Called For, Owing to Timber Import Prohibition. A despatch from Ottawa says -- A call has been issued for 5,000 more Canadians for forestry work in the United Kingdom, as a result of the 'prohibition of timber imports. They will go over in drafts. Lumbering e:perience is necessary, but military medical regulations are somewhat re- statement at the White House and the | 1°Xed DOMINION REVENUE GREATLY INCREASED War Outlay in 11 Months Double Amount Last Year. A despatch from Ottawa says:-- Dominion revenue for the eleven months of the fiscal year totals $205,- 417,089, as compared with $154,348, 809 in the same period last year. the whole year the estimate i 2) 000,000 February revenue was $17, 518,475, an increase of about two and three-quarter 'millions. The months' expenditure on capi count was $239,697,008; on current ac- count, $118,161,367. In the same period war outlay was $217,690,670, about double the amount of last year. BRITISH AVIATORS STILL MASTERS OF AIR A despatch from London says :-- Replying to a question in the House of Commons on Wednesday, James MacPherson said the Government did not accept the accuracy of the report recently sent frcem - Berlin that the Germans had brought down eighteen aeroplanes on the western front in one day. False statements such as these were made in order to elicit the truth. "I can assure the members," he added, "that we still maintain mastery of the air." : Duffs. {TIRESOME ners TOM, HERE'S AN INVITATION MRS, BORELY TO ONE OF HER 1 SHOULD SAY | DONT WANT 2 Yo Go-- | NEVER ENJOY | DONT GET NO TOM = THAT WouLD BE TELLING A LIE AND 12 SAY THAT We ACCEPT WITH PLEASURE Beas, 4 - elevendy tal ac-