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Ir Idle Money PERSONS bavlnt Idle iun.ii on hand tor temporary or longer parioda, or awaiting permn*nl lnv.<mant, cm obtain FOUR PER CBNT. Interest, compounded quar- terly, by opening an account In the SAVINGS DKPARTMHNT ol thU Company Thei* lunda nro with- drawable by cheque and be ir Inter* at imm date received until date withdrawn. We tolK-lt out ol town account*, which may be opened by '"' Write tor Booh lot The Union Trust Company, Limited Temple Buhdl.ig. Toronto CAPITAL (paid up) RESERVE $1.000.000 eso.ooo HOME Seed Corn On tin. Cob or Shcllnd. Imp. I^amin*. i r 'i"n ap /' Dont * LK er buolw-l. Lonfffflllow $1.50: Compton'i 81 60 FrfiKht paid ID Ontario on 10 bunhola or m S r B iV l r ? e Write '"' catalogue. CEO. KEITH 4 SONS, Toronto. S*wl inTchanH ,,>>i<-,. 1866 MAXWEU3 ' is the Washer lor a Woman In the first place, Maxwell's "Champion" Is the only washer that C.MI b< worked with a crank handle at the tide as well as with the top lever. Just suit your own convenience. Another Maxwell feature t.'rer and BiJance Wheel aro so accurately a -j .its J and work up iuchspeed i .1 tha washar runt alone vv.-n when you h*r stopped world.-c ilia lever. There's no doubt about Miiwell't'Chamrion* beinc lh aa|(| r u n n t n c washtr on the market Wrlt (or rw ll'.uit- rated booklet tfyouraoaler dues not handle ' - - '3 Champion* Vmktti WA\ID UAXWFU SONS. It. 92 LONDONERS' GLOOMY FACES. Hoventpcn Out of Twenty ll.-n-.-i> Much >!i>.-r>. Arnold Bennett's remark, after rot urn inn to England after a long etay in Paris, that the expression on tho faces of Londoners varies from the. sad to the morose, and that their "general mein is one of haste and gloomy preoccupation" has led to an enquiry by The Daily Mirror, which finds that it is "all too true." The Daily Mirror says it tested the statement recently, when seve- al hours were spent in counting fares in the streets and in typical places where people meet. Every- thing was gloom ; people looked glurn and worried, strained, over- BcriuuH, and anxious. Across London Bridge, for exam- ple, when it was vinited half an hour be'ore noon, were tramping a long procession of deary-looking men and tired, bored women. The first twenty who passed on the pavement on the western nido were cart-fully sorted out into throe clasnes "Happy," "miFerable" and "indifferent." The fact that seventeen had to be put into the "miserable," class, and that it was difficult to classify the other three, wan proof that Mr. Bennett's state- ment wan juotified. Then an omnibus journeying from London Hridge Station past the Mansion House was mounted, and the PITHOIIS inside were sorted out under the three hcad. Of ten, five wero looking tired, three seemed to bo bearing upon their shonldorn the burdens of the world, und the other twu looked out upon the roadway as though it WMH not there. The head waiter at a world-fam- ous restaurant in the Si rand tried to explain it all. "It is an age of worry," ho said. "Ixx>k around this room. There are hero thirty or forty persona, well-to-do, and being wrved with sumo of the finest food in Kurope, yet scarcely one of them look", happy." In I led ford Street, and there- nl)oiit,K the actors' promenade the Macbeth s f yesterday ami the llomeoH of to-morrow nil looked like llainl.'ls, o melancholy was their mein. < in! -idi- onn of the biggest agent's seven of thorn stood togq- thor, nil in an "Alas, poorYorick!" mood. It would be a much more progres- sive world if we reduced the time we give to other people's huginega. LOOK A Splendid 10 cent HoiisiOiold Spe- cially in bring 1 nil. nlii, i-il nil over C'an- ...l.i. It .-. A|i|n < . i.ii.-.l by ilin Thrifty Housewife who want* thing* "Jl'ST A I.ITTI.R HKTTKR. " Snd 1'ost Cant to- day. Simply say t Send "Send H.mithMl.l Specialty a.l vcrtltad In my Ncwanapar." Hl'H nil 1 You will bo DelightoU I Tay if s.ii istii-.l, We takn the rink. Send to-day I A.l.livsH I'.O. 1240, Montreal. DON'T MISS THIS OFFER. Seasonable Recipes. Asparagus Rolls Cook half bundle of green asparagus tips or finely sliced sprue (asparagus) in ( salted water, and drain on a sieve. j Put them in a stew-pan with a few | mushrooms and two slices of ham : or tongue, also cut into fine shreds. ! Blend well and mix with bechamel jor veloute sauce, season with salt, I pepper and a grate of nutmeg and keep hot. Cut three-fourths very small dinner rolls in half, ecoop out the crumbly part of each half and .dry them crisp in the oven. Fill ' each roll with the above mixture, coat the top with white sauce, be- sprinkle with bread crumbs and grated cheese. Place a small piece jof butter in the centre, and put in , a hot oven long enough to brown the surface. Dish up on a folded napkin, an-d send to table hot. Asparagus Pudding. Scrape, clean, wash and drain a bundle of green asparagus, tie it up and cook I in salted water until tender. When j cooked drain the asparagus and rub ' the tender parts through a fine sieve. Melt about two ounces of butter in a stewpan, stir in three ounces of flour (sifted), cook a lit- tle without browning, and add by degrees about three-fourths of a pint of hot milk, in which a bay | leaf and a piece of mace have been i boiled. Stir over the fire for sev- eral minutes, then let cool a little and work in one by one four yolks ] of eggs, season with salt and pep- I per and a pinch of red pepper. ! Whisk the whites of eggs to a stiff ', froth, and incorporate lightly with i the mixture alternately with the 1 asparagus puree. Three parts fill one or two well-buttered pudding molds, cover well with buttered paper, and put them in a saute-pan containing a little hot water. Steam thus in a fairly hot oven for about an hour. Unmold the pudding on- to a hot dish, pour over a well pre- pared lemon sauce made partly from the asparagus water, and serve. Tomatoes a la Cbnsseur. Take six large, ripe but firm, even-sized tomatoes, six or eight preserved mushrooms, chopped parsley, a lit- tle cream, six small eggs, nix tart- let crusts (baked) to serve tomatoes on. Wipe the tomatoes, remove the stems, make an incision on the stem side by means of a plain one and three-fourths inch paste cut- ter, and carefully remove the pulp without breaking the skins of the tomatoes. Chop the mushrooms and sprinkle these with chopped parsley at the bottom of each hollowed out tomato. Place them into tho tart- let crusts, which should be made to well fit the tomatyes. Break a small fresh egg into each tomato ; upon this put a dessertspoonful of cream and tomato pulp (tho batter being rubbed through a sieve, mixed with the cream and suitably seasoned with salt and popper). Sprinkle a few drops of dissolved butter in top of each tomato and bake in a gen- tle oven from five to six minutes, just long enough to poach or net tho eggs. Servo hot as a supper dish or vegetable savory. Uroen Pens a la Pnysnnnc. Shell and cook one quart of green peas in salted water and drain them. Peel and chop finely half a small onion, fry it in an ounce of butter a pale golden color; to this add two ounces of cooked lean ham, cut into dice. Dredge with a little flour (say a toas)K)onful), stir over the fire for a few seconds, and odd a quart of cooked green poas. Season with a pinch of sugar, grated nutmeg, Bait and pepper; moisten with two tableapoonfuls of good stock, sim- mer gently for ten minutes, stirring occasionally. Dish up and serve hot. Stuffed Tomatoes In Aspic Take six even-sized, ripe and firm to- matoes, four filleted Oorgona an- chovies, one hard-cooked yolk of egg, about one pint of aspic jelly, one dessertspoonful capern, mayon- naise, two cabbage lettuces. Wipe the tomatoes, carefully scoop out the centre by means of a vegetable cutter or a teaspoon. Chop the capers, yolk of egg and anchovy fillets, mix with a gill of mayonnaise and n gill of aspic, stir over the ico until nearly set, then fill the cavi- ties of the tomatoes, cover with a spring of parsley, and put on the ico to set thoroughly. Coat each tomato several tiiiiux with half-set aspic, or line some littlo molds with aspic and set the tomatoes in the name. Have ready the lettuces, washed and divided into small piec- es, season with salt and pepper, dress with mayonnaise, and put in the centre of a dish. Arrange thn prepared tomatoes round the salad, garnih with spcigs of parsley and blocks of aspic jelly. Some lobster or any other kind of cooked fish may be itned for the stuffing in place of the anchovies. Green lins with Ham.- Boil and drain a quart of young peas; ihred finely two rushers of raw ham, and fry them for a few minutes with a ..mull piece of butter. Add two nmall, grerfn onions, finely chopped, and tho peai ; moisten witli three tablespoonfuli of bechamel Banco, two of cream and seaion with salt, pepper and a pinch of sugar. Let all simmer for a few minutes lon- ger, turn out on to a hot dish, gar- niah with fried bread croutons, and serve hot. Useful Hints. Potato parings, baked in an oven, will light more quickly than wood when used to kindle a fire. To keep the light of oil lamps clear, the burners should be boiled every month in water with a lump of soda in it. Always cover newly baked bread with a clean cloth preferably an old table cloth to keep it free from germs and dust. The white of an egg, whipped stiff, with a ripe banana makes a delicious cream to be eaten on a simple gelatine pudding. Apples can be stewed with a little left-over canned fruit, such as blackberries, and the result will be a pleasant change. Wear a sewing apron while iron- ing, and you will often find it pos- sible to do a bit of mending while waiting for the iron to heat. Sash curtains of Swiss muslin hemmed by hand are less likely to pucker when washed than when hung up on the machine. It pays the housekeeper to get the beat bedsprings and mattresses ; in the market, even if she Las to economize somewhere else. Test potatoes by cutting in two and rubbing the cut surfaces to- gether. Then press the two parts together. If they stick the pota- toes are good. Eating too quickly is a common fault among children who are hun- gry, and the habit should be check- ed from the first, as indigestion will result from "bolting" the food, and when once the seeds of this miser- ' able ailment are sown there is scarcely ever a complete cure. Even at the expense of a little inconveni- 1 ence and trouble it is well to watch the children at meal times, and to teach them to eat slowly. When nailing down a carpet after the floor has been washed be certain that the floor is quite dry, or the < nails -will rust and injure the car- pet. All the strips of fat left from a steak should be left in a dish and tried out in the oven They will ' make excellent fat for frying. Any one troubled with rats or mice can get rid of them very quick- ly if they will sprinkle pepper on a cloth and stuff this into the hole where they appear. Large patterns in tablecloths are less economical than small ones, for the simple reason that the long threads break sooner than the short ones. To preserve the appearance of wooden utensils wash them direct- ly after they are used, because if grease and dirt are allowed to soak in it may be impossible to remove them. In pressing silk or satin, do not use a very hot iron nor dampen them. Lay some clean, dry muslin over the seams and press with a warm iron. To overcome the odor of mould, which sometimes rises in a library in dump weather in spite of the best of care, scatter a few drops of oil of lavender on the shelves, and thn odor will disappear. Sometimes during the spring cleaning operations a good piece of | furniture is bruised. If the injury is severe a cabinetmaker should be consulted, but where tho wood is only donted, and not broken, tho mark can generally be removed by home treatment. First wet that part with warm water, then double a piece of brown paper several times and place it over the bruise ; now press with a heavy warm iron, leaving it on the paper until the moisture has evaporated. If one application is not successful it must be repeated. ICELAND WILL BE "DKY." Present Stock of Liquors to B Exhausted by 1914. At the end of the present year according to news received from Copenhagen, it will be impossible for either natives or tourists to ob tain alcoholic liquors in Iceland. Under the anti-spirit law permis eion was given to consume the pre sent stock of liquors in Iceland and figuring on the per capita con sumption it will all be gone by th< end of the year. The governmen adopted the drastic prohibition laws because it was felt that th< excessive drinking of the Icelander was undermining the physical fit ness of the people. During the last twenty yeare the trade and industry of Iceland has increased enormously. Twenty years ago there was not a dairy in the country ; now thirty big dairiet are sending thousands of casks o butter to Leith and Edinburgh Scotland. Sheep raising is also be coming an important business. Fishing, however, continues to be the staple industry of the people Twenty years ago 15,000,000 pounds of dried cod were exported from Iceland annually; now 50,000,000 pounds are shipped each year Twenty-one steam trawlers now sail with their hauls directly to Hull, England. The country stil needs immigrants, much of it being untenanted. INTERESTING STORY OF CANA- DIAN COMPANY'S DEVEL- OPMENT. HOW HE LIVED TO RE 102. England'H Oldest Rnrristrr Recom- mend* Physirul Exercise. The oldest barrister in England, Mr. W. A. Gordon Hake, of Brigh- ton, who is a cousin of tho famous General Gordon, celebrated his 102nd birthday recently. For fifty years Mr. Hake has lived at No. 3, Old Steino, Brighton, ono of the four houaos built in the reign of George III., which, with its eobble- Ht-one front and old-fashioned win- down, is an object of much interest ,n tho town. Furnished in the early Victorian style, it never re- veals after sunset a light of any sort. Such is Mr. Hake's vitality that he has recovered from a seri- ous attack of bronchitis. H it the aecond resident of Brighton within a few yearn to attain the great age of 102. He attributes his long life to plenty of physical exercise and abstemious habits. Here ia a littln (tide-light on Mr. Hake's fondnoss for long walks: "I was a great nfciokler for tho etiquette of my profession," ho nays. "It was the law of existence. By the rules of our pretension wo wore not allowed to rido in a pub- lic conveyance. Not being able to afford a postchaiso unless threo or four joined me., I have often walked thirty miloa rather than break through the mien." The Russell Motor Car Company has had long experience in the- eell- ing and manufacture of cars. Starting as agents for other makes of cars, this company proceeded to build up a plant in Canada, manu- facturing cars in this country. Some of the parts were purchase* abroad ; others were designed ami manufactured at home. The amount of homo manufacturing steadily in- creased. In 1910 the adoption ol the Knight Motor gave a further stimulus to the business and the company found it necessary to pro- vide in a strong manner for future developments of the industry. DC v<"loprnents in mind were the fur- ther adoption of the sliding sleeve in opposition to the poppet valve motor; the adoption of left-hand steering and centre gear and con- trol ; the adoption of electric light- ing and self-starting. Early in 1911 a corps of engineers was net to work to develop a car that would be worthy of "Russell" reputation. In September of that year they were ready for a prelimi- nary report, and taking advantage of the unusual opportunity, engi- neering co-operation and advice, a conference of engineers passed upon the preliminary plans. These were then worked out in further detail. In January, 1912, this conference met a second time, there being pre- sent representatives of three of the foremost manufacturing firms in the United States and two engi- neers from Europe, from factories operating under the Knight license. After the designs had passed this stage, experimental cars were built and submitted to exacting tests, upon the bench in tho factory and upon the road. Following this, a small number of demonstrating cars were put through, to discover any further points of difficulty. Then came tho careful prepara- tion of exact tools for manufacture, so that each piece would be an ox- act duplicate of a similar piece in and other car. These provisions, ono after the other, have been car- ried through. To-day tho Russell Company is delivering cars design- ed under the- most advantageous conditions of engineering and man- ufactured with a view to the re- quirements not only of 1913 but 1914 as well. The Russell car of this year is a model on which there will be no im- portant change for two seasons at least. QUITE CORRECT. Teacher "Now, tell me what is memory T ' Pupil "Tho thing what you for get with I" Farmer "If I were as lazy as yov I'd go and hang myself in nn barn." Tramp "No, ym wouldn't!" Farmer ''Wh, wouldn't I !" Tramp -"Lf you w> : AH l,i.-\ us mo you wouldn't have a barn." Conforms Jo tfi* fito/i standard of Gl If eft'* oook, five Aundred purposes. GILLET"' PBRFU Made in Coi\ada INTEREST PAID IN DATES. Land Mortgage Recorded in Time of Artaxerxes I. of Babylon. A farm mortgage is probably the oldest of all human transactions which could be called investments that is, the putting away of sums of money more or less permanently for the purpose of deriving from thorn fixed rates of interest with adequate security says the Finan- cial World. Mortgages are known to have existed very generally among the ancients back even of Greek and Roman times. Mr. Hil- precht, the Assyriologist, found some yoars ago in the ruins of the Babylonian city ol Nippur a brick tablet on which ia cuneiform was recorded a land mortgage. The land in the soil of which this tablet was found is known to have been occu- pied in ancient times by a banking use which made loans of ail kinds, including mortgages. A translation follows : "Thirty bushels of dates are due to Bel Nadin Shun, son of Marashu, by Bel Bullitsu and Sha Nabu Shu, sons of Kirebti, and their tenants. In the month of Tisri (month of har- vest) of the 34th year of King Arta- xerxes I., they shall pay the dated, thirty bushels, according to the measure of Bel Nadin Shun, in the Town of Bit Balateu. Their field, cultivated and uncultivated, their '.f estate, is held as a pledge for the date*, namely, thirty bushels, i>y Bel Nadin Shun. Another cred- itor shall not have power over it." It will be noted that this docu- nent, jrhich is trust deed and note 11 one, is a first mortgage, as shown )y the* final sentence. Another cred- tor shall not have power over it. A specific place, as well as time, for payment of the debt, is provided, list as our modern mortgages or mortgage bonds state that principal and interest are "payable at the >ankers" or some other house. Marashu Sons, of Nippur, lived in the reign of Artaxerxes I., in the year 4C4 424 B.C., and Darius II., 423405 B.C. Many of the cunei- r orms examined showed that the irm executed leasos with terms and conditions as to security differing little from the modern instruments now used by mortgage bankers. One wonders, in speculating on /hese revelations, whether the an- cient Babylonians also had their money-trust problems, Pujo Com- mittees, Rockefeller*, Carnegies, Morgans, and other billionaires on the one hand and political critics of the Roosevelt type on. the other, who went gunning for the throne of Artaxerxes or Darius, much after the same fashion of to-day. Such reflections lead one to project his astral imagination into the distant future and look to see whether, a few thousand years hence, say about the year 5013, some genius of that day may be seen going poking about the ruins of our civilization and digging up a mortgage or two, showing that a Morgan or a Rocke- feller, or their successors, had just made a loan on the last piece of property in the world left unencum- bered. Who knows!" Patronizing a Princess. How the Crown Princess of Ger- many once met a. rebuff is told in a Berlin despatch. The princess takes great interest in all measures that alleviate the lot of working girls. As the story goes, she once applied, incognito, on behalf of a protegee to a leading firm of dress- makers for a position as model. "I came," she said, "because I saw your advertisement, and I thought" . The manager laid his hand upon her shoulder. "My dear girl," he said, "I am sorry, but it's no use. You are not quite good-looking enough. Still, you have a pleasant face, and I'll tell you what I'll do. Come again next month, and then I'll see if I can use you as a junior saleswoman." His consternation, when he dis- covered the princess identity, was only equaled by her tact in making him forget his discomfiture. Beasts Spread Diphtheria. Forms of diphtheria are known to exist in many animals. Calves suffer from a form of it which in- fects human beings. They have a habit of licking those who pet them and spread the disease that way. Chickens, too, are often attacked by the disease, patches appearing in their mouths similar to those in the throat of a child. Children are always ready to pet sick animals of all kinds, and this is a source of great danger. Some of us think we are entitled to a lot of credit for performing a duty, and- we are ! THE* SECURITIES CORPORATION % 6*/i X 6% % TABLISHBD I9OI HEAD OFPICI : 86 KINO ST. BAST, TORONTO MONTREAL LONDON. E.G.. GNO. Our Quarterly List just published contains complete par- ticulars of these Investments. CORPORATION AND INDUSTRIAL ISSUES Amount Security Income Yield Canadian Northern Railway Company (Equipment Bonds) ..................... At Market $30,000 Toronto & York Radial Railway Co'y. (First Mortgage 6's Guaranteed by To- ronto Railway Co. ) .................... 25,000 Electrical Development Company of On- tario, Limited (First Mortgage- 5's) .... 10,000 I>ominion Steel Corporation, Limited (5% Debentures) ............................. 85,000 P. Burns & Company, Limited (Packers, Ranchers and Provisioners, Calgary, Alta.) (First Mortgage 6's due 1st April, 1924) .................................... . 85,000 (First and Refunding Mortgage 6's due 1st January, 1831) .......................... 2,000 Western Canada Flour Mills Company, Limited (First Mortgage 6's due 1st March, 1928) ............................ $25,000 (First ami Refunding Mortgage 6's due 1st September, 1931) ....................... 85,000 William Daviea Co'y, Limited (First Mort- gage 6's) ................................ 25,000 Sawyer Massey Company, Limited (First Mortgage 6's) ........................... 26,000 Dunlop Tire & Rubber Goods Company, Limited (First Mortgage ') ........... 85,000 Gordon, Ironside & Fares Company, Limi- ted (Wholesale Packers, Ranchers and Provisioners, Winnipeg (First Mortgage ') ...................................... 25,000 J. H. Ashdown Hardware Company, Limi- ted (First Mortgage 6's) ................ 86,000 The Harris Abattoir Company, Limited (First Mortgage 6' 8) .................... 5.91% 0.60% 6.91% B.78% B.90 % % 6 6 X % % AND CbRPORATIONBONDS i i