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Satity and stability are first and foremost, the keynote of our tradition: al policy," Leighton McCarthy, Pre- - sident of the Canada Life Assurance Company, stated at the Company's 85th Annual meeting recently. In reviewing the Canada Life's se cure financial position, Mr. McCarthy described the Balance Sheet as "a very strong one." In this, total assets are shown as $216,886,246.26, an in crease of $12,110,226.77, During the year the Company's already large pro- portion of government, government guaranteed and municipal bonds was increased by $14,995,119 to a total of $66,369,177.85. In common with the experience of other companies, de- mands for policy loans and cash sur- render values were heavy. In this connection Mr. McCarthy said, "All demands have been taken care of from the ample resources at our dis- posal, and we have not sold a security to provide funds for our disburse ments." Surplus funds and special reserves of the Canada Life are $8,237,758 59 rfter writing down securities by $846, 961.06. Reserves for special con- tingencies have been increased to two million dollars, New business placed onthe com- pany"s hooks during the year amount- od to over $80,500,000. This is wot as high as the volume of new paid-for business in some previous years, but being made in a period when financial . conditions were badly disturbed: the total was described by Mr. McCarthy as "a tribute to the well-directed ef- forts of our associates in the field." Annuities Increase The sale of annuities increased by over $2,000,000 and amounted to $7, 780,298. Total business in force amounted to $926,389 982, which is ap- proximately three times the amount in force only ten years ago. Total income from all sources amounted to over 50 million dollars About $80,000 per day, or a total of over 29 million dollars for the year, was paid out in death claims, matured endowments, dividends, annuities and cash values for surrendered policies. The interjection of this 29 million together with similar distributions made in 1931 of 25 million, and in 1930 of 23 million, making a total of 77 mil lion, into the daily activities of the general public, in addition to the flow of funds into policy loans and invest ments, is the Company's share of 614 How the King Spends His Yearly Salary The Crown of Britain is the cheap- 85t monarchy in the world. The taxpayers actually make a profit of £740,000 (about $2,960,000) out of the financial relations between the King and the State, for, though the King draws a nominal salary of £470,000, ($1,880,000) he voluntarily relinquishes every yea: £1,210,000 ($4,840,000) in revenues from the Crown lands. The King's real salary is £110,000 ($440,000) a.year. The rest of the Civil list total is earmarked for salaries, expenses, and upkeep of the royal households and palaces. The ance contributed during the years of depression to the ability of individuals on the American continent to survive the ordeal of these difficult times, * Defining life insurance as a "co- operative association of individuals," Mr. McCarthy declared it to be "a great social asset and the nation is benefited by its wider spread." General Manager's Address One of the main features of the ad- dress of A. N. Mitchell, General Man- ager, had to do with policy loans. "Experience has demonstrated," Mr, Mitchell said, "that a policy with a full value borrowed is in a much weaker position than one with a mar- gin of value left." Policyholders had recognized this and during the year bad repaid over $2,100,000 on policy loans. "No man who has a loan upon his policy can afford to 1eglect making re payment of that loan," it was stated, "when he realizes that such a repay- ment is an absolutely sure investment at 6%. Moreover, the rehabilitation of the equity of his policy again places bim in readiness for any similar emer- gency in the future. "In the Company's own direct writ. ten business, excluding reinsurahees and Group, the reduction of business in force has been approximately 214%. Fortunately this reduction in business in force has been accompanied by a very favorable reduction in expense ratio, whether based on total income or on net premium incowe. This and other factors have resulted in earn- ings from the year's operations $6, 964,739.32, while the assets were in- creased by $12,110,226.77." > The total result of the combined operations for new insurance and an- nuities is that the total net premium income for the year was slightly over 37 million dollars, as compared with somewhat over 38 million dollars in 1931. "These figures," Mr. Mitchell stated, "Probably give a truer pieture of the Agency results than a com- parison of the sums assured and an- nuity considerations." An increase of 575,000 pounds sterl- ing over the business of 1931 wag an- uounced for the British [sles Division ~--the totals being 3,460,000 pounds sterling in life assurances and 1,175, 000 pounds sterling in annuities, This Increase meant 440 'more cases than in the previous year. sum of £13,200 ($52,800) is spent every year on royal bounty and alms, apart from personal donations of the King and Queen. 2 Only two of the royal residences, Sandringham and Balmoral, are the King's private property. They were bequeathed to him by King Edward. dp ; "Weapons have never been the mother of tranquillity; they were ever the child of fear."---Guglielmo Ferrero, re tf ee "The language of science {is the same throughout the world." Charles M. Schwab. ROYAL YEAST CAKES the best dry ye . Try this Easy-to-Make Recipe for FORM CAKE Cream 4 cup sugar with 74 Soak 1 Royal Yeast Cake in pint lukewarm water for minutes, MT YT TITTY soft dough (about 4 cups). Knead well. Cover cup butter. Add to 1 beaten and set egg and beat until light. Add aside in warm place free from 1 cup lukewarm milk. Stir draughts to rise until double well. Add 1 cup Royal Yeast in bulk (about 1! hours). Sponge®, 14 cup citron, !{ Knead down and place in cup raisins, '4 cup chopped well-greased tube pan. Brush almonds, 4 salt, top with egd and bake in and enough flour to make moderate oven about 45min, *ROYAL YEAST SPONGE: bulk, in warm place free from draughts. Makes 5 to & cups of batter. billions of dollars which life insur. SYNOPSIS. Philo Vance becomes interested in the Greene Murder Case after Julla Greene is killed and her sister Ada is wounded. There are Mrs, Greene, and five children, Julia, Chester, Sibella, "ex and Ada, an opted hter, living in the old 'eene mansion, - Chester Greene fs the next victim. ella seems murdered in his bedroom. to be on intimate terms with Dr. Von Blon, the young family physician. Ada, the adopted daughter, comes to District Attorney Markham's office, While she is there Rex is murdered in his bedr nn. In each case there are footprints «at- side the house. Dr. Von Blon reports that deadly doses of morphine and strychnine have been stolen from his bag at the Greene house, The next morning Ada is poisoned with morphine, but the doctor reaches her in time, The same night Mrs, Greene dles of strych- nine poisoning. Ada and Sibella dre the only survivors, - Vance summarizes the points of the case. CHAPTER XXV.-- (Cont'd.) 40. Ada had a premonition of Ches- ter's death, and, when informed of it, guesses he has been shot in the same manner as Julia. But she is greatly relieved when shown the footprint patterns indicating that the murder- er is an outsider. 41. Rex says he heard a noise iu the hall and the sound of a door clos- jng twenty minutes before the shot was fired. 42, Ada, when told of Rex's story, recalls also having heard a door close at some time after 11. 43. It is obvious that Ada knows or suspects something. 44. The cook becomes emotional at the thought of any one wanting to harm Ada, but says she can under- stand a person having a reason to shoot Julia and Chester. 45. Rex, when interviewed, shows clearly that he thinks some one in the house is guilty. 46. Rex accuses Von Blon of being the murderer. 47. Mrs. Greene makes a request that the investigation be dropped. Third Crime. 48. Rex is shot in the forehead with a .32 revolver at 11.20 a.m., twenty days after Chester has been killed and within five minutes o. the time Ada phones him from the Listrict At- torney's office. 49. There is no look of Lorror or surprise on Rex's face, as was the case with Julia and Chester. i 50. His body is found on the floor before the mantel. 51. A diagram which Ada asked him to bring with him to the District .ttorney's office has disappeared. 52. No one upstairs hears the shot, tiough the dors are open, but Sproot, downstairs in the butler's pantry, hears it distinctly. 53. Von Blon is visiting Sibella that morning, but she says she was in the bathroom bathing her dog at the time Rex was shot. 54. Footprints are found in Ada's room coming from thr baleony door, which is aja=. 56. A singl> set of footprints is found leading from the front walk to the balcony. 56. The tracks could have been mide at any time after 9 o'clock that morning. - 57. Sibella refuses to go away on a visit. 58. The goloshes that made all thrée sets of footprints are found in the linen closet, although they were not there when the house was search- ed for the revolver, 59. The goloshes sre returned to the linen closet, but disappear that nizht. Fourth Crime. 60. Two days after Rex's death Ada and Mrs. Greene are poisoned within tvelve hours of each other--Ada with morphine and Mrs. Greene with strychnine. 61. Ada is treated at once and re- covers. 62. Von Blon is seen leaving the house just before Ada swallows the poison. , 63. Ada is discovered by Sproot as a result of Sibella's dog catching his teeth in the bell cord. 64. The morphine was taken in the bouillon which Ada habitually drank in the mornings. . 65. Ada states that no on: visited her in her room after the nurse had called her to come and drink the bouillon; but that she went to Julia's room to get a shawl, leaving the bouillon unguarded for several mo- ments. 66. Neither Ada nor the nurse re- members having seen Sibella's dog in the hall before the poisoned bouillon was taken, § 67. Mrs, Greene ine tind & presumably, Mrs. Greene heve taken without assistance. 72. Sibella: decided to vist. a 'chum in Atlantic City, and leaves| New York on the afternoon train. Distributable acts. + 73. The same reyolver " used on Julia, Ada, Chester and Rex. 5 74. All three sets of footprints have ouviously been made by some one in the house for the purpose of casting suspicicn on an outsider, 75. The murderer is some - one whom both' Julia and Chester would receive in their rooms, in negligee, late at night. 76. The murderer does not make himself known to Ads, but enters her room surreptitiously. 77. Nearly three weeks after Ches- ter's death Ada comes to the District Attorney's office, stating sh® has im- portant news te impart. 78, Ada says that Rex has confess- ed to her that he heard the shot in her room and also heard other things, but was afraid to admit them; and she asks that Rex be questioned. 79. Ada tells of having found a cryptic diagram, marked with sym- bols, in the lower hall near the lib- rary door, 80. On the day of Rex's murder Von Blon. reports that his medicine case has been rifled of three grains of strychnine and six grains of mor- phine--presumably at the Greene mansion, \ : 81. The library reveals tle fat that some one has been in the habit »f going there and reading by candle- light. The books that show signs of having been read are a handbook of the criminal sciences, two works on toxicology and two fieatises on hys- terical paralysis and sleep-walkingz. 82. The visitor to the library is some one who understands German well, for three of the bogks that have been read are in German. 83. The goloshes that disappeared from the linen closet on the night of Rex's murder are found in the lib- rary. 84. Some one listens at the door while the library is being inspected. 85. Ada reports that she saw Mrs. Greene walking in the lower hall the night before, 86. Von Blon asserts that Mrs. Greene's paralysis is of a nature that makes movement of physical impossi- bility, 87. Arrangements are made wih Von Blon to hzve Dr. Oppenheimer examine Mrs. Greens. 88. Von Blon informs Mrs. Graene of the proposed examinatiin, which he hes scheduled for the following day. : 89. Mrs. Greene is poisoned before Lr. Opperheimer's enavunation =an be made. 90. The post mortem reveals con- clusively "that Mrs. Greene's leg muscles were so atrophied that she could not have walked. 91, Ada, when told of the autopsy, insists that she saw her mother's shawl about the figure in the hall, and, on being pressed, admits that Sibella sometimes wore it. 92. During the questioning of Ada regarding the shawl Mrs. Mannheim suggests that it was she herself whom Ada saw in the hall." 93. When Julia and Ada were shot there were, or could have been present in the house: Chester, Sibella, Rex, Mrs. Greene, Von Blon, Barton, Hem- ming, Sproot and Mrs. Mannheim. 94, When Chester was shot there were, or could have been, presert in the house: Sibella, Rex. Mrs. Greene, Ada, Von Blon, Barton, Hemming, Sproot and Mrs, Mannheim. 95. When Rex was shot there were, or coialc have been, present in the house: Sibella, Mrs. Grene, Von Blon, Hemming, Sproot and Mrs, Mann- heim, . 96. When Ada was poisoned there were, or could have been, present in the house: Sibella, Mys.. Greene, Von Blon, Hemming, Sproot and Mrs. Mannheim, 97. When Mrs, Greene was poison- ed there were, or could have been, Present in the house, Sibella, Von ee epee 'could make out a case against several people. But no matter wht person] CH Mrs. Mannheim. When Markham had finished read: ing the summary, he went through it 2 second time, Then he laid it on tal § + ; "Yes, Vance," he said, "you've cov-| ly. But I ean't see any in them, In fact, they seem only to emplasize the confusion of the case.' the w pages. {RE ta Rg it wasn't for certain items, we red the mai 3 pretty thoro: ] ered the main points pretty thorough- Markham glanced again. through | in the list we may asume to be guilty, we are at once confronted Ly a group) of contradictory and insurmountable facts. 'This pracis could be used effectively to prove that every one concerned is innocent," "Superficially it appears that way," agreed Vance. "But we first must fiid the generating line of the design, and then rela'# the subsidi'ry forms of the pattern to it." ; Markham made a hopeless gesture. "If only life were as simple as your esthetic theories!" "It's dashed simpler," Vance retort- ed. "The mere mechanism of a cam- era can record life; but only a highly developed creative intelligence, with a profound philosophic insight, can pro- duce a work of art." (To be continued.) mee fl indi Fisherman Hooks Relic Of First Ocean Cable Cape Ray, N.F.--Wiiile bauling his trawls off here recently a fisherman dragged up from the ocean floor a fragment of the first submarine tele- graph cable used in American waters. If was a piece of the line laid in 1856 by Professor Samuel Morse and Cyrus W. Field between Aspey Bay, Cape Breton, and Cape Ray. The cable was manufactured in Eng- land, the firet stranded conductor ever made. Despite its long immersion, the insulation retained its odor of gutta percha. Until 1866 the eastern extremity of telegraphic communication was Cape Race, Off that point westbound ocean liners dropped overboard canisters containing European pewspapers, dis-f patches and telegrams from passen~ gers, A boat was always stationed there to pick up canisters, patches and put them on the wire, bringing news of world events to New ; York ahead of the steamships. . ro m-------- ] "Why should I come back to the theatre? I would prefer to be re-| membered at my best."--David War: field. a i "There are occasions when strong language is ds necessary as strong medicine."--Edward H._Doyle. There | newspaper men condensed the dis-}' + LEIGHTON McCAR". HY 'President of the Canada Life Assur- ance Company, whose address at the compan,'s annual meeting disclosed another successful year's business. PRO Re German Inventor Perfects Radio Fire and Ship Alarm Berlin.--The first wireless fire-alarm in Germany, the invention of the radio technician, Dr. Ristow, has just been put in service in Wannsee, a suburb of Berlin. A push on a button at the central fire station sounds the alarm at all others, and at the same time rings alarm belle in the homes of all the members of the auxiliary volun- téer fire brigade. A wider field of application is claim: ed for the invention. If, for esamp'e, a steamer has only one wireless oper- ator and he is off duty, a hundred S$ O 8s may stream into the ship's antenna and remain unheard, as has | actually happened. "The new device, however, makes it possible to connect the receiving apparatus with bells in the officers' cabins and the ringing of the alarm would bring the radio oper- ator promptly to his post. "| would win in the choial contests wiat male choir, and discussing 1 thousand little competitions, even te and poetry. 30 Talking and excited abou be a set of insertione for sheets, shams, and towels, we were borne om the train from Betiwsy-Cocd 8 through the Vale of Conway, poside the river, past Casrhuw; the once auclent city ot Canovium, past Con way Castle, with is harp-shapeé walls. still encircling the town, and so to Colwyn Bay... ; That great Eisteddfodic pavilion, where the people were waiting good paturvedly but impatientl , is pri marily a place of music, Even as in the world, so in \ first in the hearts of mankind 'and poetry second. And it may be, since music is more social and demecratic, that the popular preference is as it should be. The "suman element in all is robust and temiug with enthu:" stasm, It is true that prize-taking socks, shawls, pillow shams, and such homely articles uo longer hang 10 festoouis above the platform as they did some twen'y or thirty years ago. 'Now the walls are gaily decorated with banners® bearing thousands of © spiteful-looking = dragons, and pen nants inscribed with the names of scores of famous Welshaen, and wih sneh mottoes as 'Y Gwir yn Erbyn y Byd" (the truth against the world), "Gwlad y Mabinogion" (the land of the wrth Galon" (hearth with heart} and others. After the procession of dignitaries was seated 1p.1 the platform, a worricd-looking bard bezir to call out prizes for cvery conceivably use. ful thing under the sun, among them a clock tower which he seemed to be in need of himself as a rostrum for his = throat-splitting yelis. During these announcements the choirs were filing in, a pretty child with a 'cello much larger thau hersel' was tak: ing off her hat and coat, a stiff, self- conscicus young man was bustling gbout with an air -of importances, and in the front, just below the platform, sat newspaper reporters from all over the United Kingdom, busy at their work, . .. The afternoon was growing later and later; it was high t'me for the pame of the bard of the crown Loe to be announced. At last, with due Lpomp, the name of the young bard was announced. Every one looked te see where he might be sitting. was found sitting modestly in the rear of the big pavilion, and there were shouts of "Dyma fo!" (here he ig). Two bards ¢ame dewn and escorted him to the platform, where all the druids, ovates, and bardy were awaiting him, The band, the trumpeter, the harp, and the sword now all performed their service, the sun slanting down through the west. ern windows on to this Dbardle pageant. The sparrows flew in and out of the sunlight, unafraid of the dragons that waved about them and the bands that played beneath them, and the great sword held sheathed over the young bard's head, The sheathed: again as all shouted "Heddwch!" The bard was crowned and the whole audience rose to the Marks, in "Gallant Litlle Wales." i ee Earth Big Target Los Angeles, -- Mother Eawth, the most long-suffering, if unsung, clay, pigeon on record? y ES 'The old lady has a history of tar Hood that makes the famous tip plates {of Annie Oakley look like new mer 2 chandise. : According to Dr, CI '| curator of astronomy at of Nati ing Wales, music comes * that happens «t a Welsh Eisteddfod Mabinogion), "Calon He sword was bared tbree times and Welsh national song. -- Jeannciie _ WCE For Many Meteors Cw iftly