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$ __â€"-â€"-â€"â€"-â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"T!fi!m mImlnlh \mRRLRIMMAIRIRIALAURURANAARIRS henihhthihthhhchhth on ohhenchoh h ohchn h hh hi choh t NUAE d s ty 4«‘:\«‘,; Ayi n en y THIRTY FOREIGNERS SLEEP ON STATIOX ROOR Foreigners Crowd in Expecting Work On Extension Which will Not Start for a Week or Two yet. Newspaper reports, â€" wellâ€"meaning though they might be that work was to start ‘‘at once"‘ or * immediately *‘ on the building of the extension of the T.â€"& N. Q. Railway on to Tin Can have been responsible more or less for undesirable: conditions at Cochrane. Foreigners and others have crowded into Cochrane during the past few weeks expecting to get work on the railway construction.. The work was not ready for them and some of them did not have any too much money, which is putting it mildly enough. Last week ‘Mr. D. MeBachren, exâ€" Mayor of Cobalt, who had been west with the representatives of the Proâ€" vincial and Dominion Labour Departâ€" ments investigating the situation of some of the settlers along the C.N.R., said that when he stopped at Coâ€" chrane station one morning last week there were fully thirty men sleeping on the station floor. The station was warm all right, but the situation of the men was neither healthy nor comâ€" fortable. They had no other place to sleep and Mr. MeEachren said, ‘‘Poor fellows, I don‘t know where they were woing to eat during the day.‘"" The men were chiefly Polish and had come to Cochrane in the expectation of getting immediate mwork on ‘the railâ€" way extension. They used the station washroom as soon as they would wake, and Mr.MeBEachren said that the towels were of a shade that would. make the ordinary man afraid to use them for fear of contracting the choâ€" Tera or worse.. The air of the station wasâ€"well, it was what might be exâ€" pected with thirty men, with their boots off, sleeping. under the cireumâ€" stances suggested. So far as can be learned the people of Cochrans have done all possible and much more than might be reasonâ€" ably expected, to relieve the condiâ€" tions, for which the town itself is not surely to blame. j It does not seem ftoo much ito say that the Ortario Government has shown far less humane feeling and foresight. Perhaps the Government takes the view that all who worry through their misery until spring will have gotten along without help, and those who die will be out of their misery. The Province can scearcely be THE PORCUPINE ADVANUOE expected these days to show any inâ€" terest in anybody who hasn‘tenough money to be worth while prosecuting £6r a breach of the O.T.A. PLEASING REPORT OF THE MUTUTAL LIFE OF CANADA cords of the Mutual Life this state: meng is doubly impressive. The busiâ€" ness of the company is now more than $228,000,000, having increased by $22â€" 000,000 during the past year. Anâ€" other year promises to place the Mu. tual Life among the life insurance companies having a quarter ofya bilâ€" lion dollars worth of business in force. The statement not only shows a largeâ€" ly increased business, ‘but it also gives evidence of the carefulness and econ. omy with which the company‘s busiâ€" ness has been conducted. The rates of expense to income fell from 2045 per cent. to 18.60 per cent. The investâ€" ments were so carefully placed that the interest earnings have risen from 6.41 per cent. to 6.60 per cent. That the Mutual~ Life has ‘beenâ€" writing ‘‘good business‘‘ is proven by the fact that for the year only 41 per cent. of the amount that the standard tables of mortality suggested had to cCO be paid in death claims, though many had~ predicted an abnormally hearvy deathâ€"rate after the _ war. There is also a noteworthy increase in the asâ€" sets of the company, these being now. $48,211,203.98, an increase of close to. five and a half million dollars over the preceding year. The report is the more pleasing on account of the fact that the company being established on a purely mutual basis the whole of the surplus is used either to reduce preâ€" miums, to increase the amount of in surance or to pay profits to policy, holders in cash. By all tests, the anâ€" nual statemé&it shows the Mutual Life to be in a stronger position than ever before, and that is saying a great ldeal, for every.one of its fiftyâ€"two \yem’s has witnessed steady progress. There will be a good time at the 1.O. O.F. Hall on Friday evening, the Oriâ€" entals then giving a Smoker and At Home for their members and friends. There will be euchre, cribbage, reâ€" freshments, ete., and all present will assuredly have a very enjoyable evenâ€" ing with the O0.0.H. & P. at their "*Procressive Smoker."‘ rogressive po]i( 10 of the Mutual ‘â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"uâ€"-â€"â€"-â€"-â€"â€"-â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"-â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"'l | I”"'. ' ”l*;l' ;“M“”MOQWWW #000909999000000000000000000008 0070000680 00060000000046664 The stock market continues to hold its recent advance and we look for a further upward swing this coming spring when such â€" mines as ROUVUVGH LUMBER should resume operations. These stocks therefore, should be bought at present market prices. Members Standard Stock Exchange of Toronto. Porcupine Office â€" â€" Timmins, Ontario PORCUPINE COBALT TORONTO KIRKLAND LAKE NEW YORK BUFFALO SYRACUSE ROCHESTER DETROIT, SUDBURY. Hamilton B. Wills & Co. Limited WALLINGFORD BROS. Direct Private Wire Connecting all Offices. Delivered anywhere in Porcupine Camp. MATTAGAMI HEIGHTS PORCUPINE CROWN DOME LAKE WEST DOME For Sale SCHUMACHER it