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“Ces souvenirs sont emprun- tés à un volume qui parait sous ce titre : “Journal d’un vaincu.” L'auteur, M. Pierre de Lano, s'est fait connaître déjà par de curieuses révéla- tions sur le monde politique du second empire :

La pression dirigée contre la commune fut effroyable. Ce: pendant l'humanité ne perdait pas tout à fait ses droits, et des exemples heureux seraient à noter pour l'honneur des hom- mes qui eurent, à cette époque, une part quelconque dans les affaires publiques.

Parmi ces exemples, il en est deux que j'ai recueillis. Le pre- mier eut pour theâtre le pa- lais de l'Elysée au momeni même où les troupes de Ver- sailles venaient de reprendre ce monument au fédérés.

Comme on conduisait dans le jardin un groipe de mal- heureux, saisis les armes à la main et destinés à la mort im- médiate, un gamin d’une quin- zaine d'années se détacha de ses Compagnons et, fuyant aux travers des soldats, s’en vint se planter devant un colonel char- gé des exécutions.

Le gamin ayant fait le salut militaire, adressa alors la parole à l'officier :

-M'sieu, vous allez me fusil- ler, n’est ce pas ?

-Certainement, mon bon- homme. Pincés les armes à la main, tous y passeront, C'est l'ordre.

—Eh bien, voilà : j'habite la rue Miromesnil, où maman est concierge. Puisque je vais être

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fusillé je ne rentrerai pas à la maison, maman m'attendra et sera inquiète. Voulez-vous me

permettre, m'sieu, d’aller jus-| que chez nous ? Je dirai à ma- |

man que j'ai une course à faire, | qu'il n’y a pas de danger pour) moi ; comme ceia, elle m’atten- dra bien, mais elle se tourmen- tera moins. Et puis j'ai une montre ; je voudrais bien la| donner à maman avant de mou. rir. Voulez-vous, dites, m'sieu, que j'aille jusque chez nous je |

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Le colonel, entouré de quei-| ques officiers et du gouverneur | du palais, M. de Belevalle, qui était resté à Paris pendant la Commune, demeurait stupéfait | du langage de cet enfant. 11 y| avait assez de sang peut-être d il Jui répugnait sans doute de. faire tuer ce gamin de quinze ans ; il sourit et demanda au petit homme : |

—Et si jete permets d'aller jusque chez toi, tu reviendra! bien sûr ? |

Le gamin se redressa : |

—Parole d'honneur, m'sieu.|

—Eh bien, va. |

Puis se retournant vers les! officiers, le soldat murmura: |

—1l a de lesprit, ce voyou |

Ca le sauve. |

Une demie-heure s'écoula, et;

nul ne songeait plus à l'enfant, | Jorsque devant le colonel, sou-| dain, il reparut. |

—Voilà, m'sieu, fit1l. J'ai! dit la chose à maman. Je lai.

Eh embrassée. Maintenant, je suis |

prêt. |

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sailles, devant le 3e conseil de tre papa va faire un petit voya- Suerre, siégeant alors au palais | ge. 11 sera absent durant un de justice et présidé par le co-| mois. Mais en l’attendant, il lonel D...des cuirassiers. J'étais faut que vous sachiez où trou- à l’audience lorsqu'il se pro- ver l'hospitalité. Voyons, il pa- duisit. rait que vous ne connaissez

On venait de faire asseoir personne. Eh bien, moi, est-ce sur le banc des accusés, un que je vous fait peur ? Voulez- jeune homme distingué et vêtn | vous venir avec moi ? convenablement. Le colonel, a-! Ce fut l’aînée qui repondit yant parcouru rapidement son encore. dossier, lui adressa les qustions! —Oui, monsieur. hâbituelles, après quoi, brus-| —C'est dit, alors. Embrassez quement, il l'interrogea plus |encore votre papa et allons- intimement : nous-en. Messieurs l'audience

— Vous êtes veuf, et vous a-lest levée. vez deux enfants ? Je n’ai pas besoin d'ajouter

—Oui, mon coionel. que les larmes furent nombreu-

— Deux filles, n'est-ce pas ?|ses, ce jour-là au 3e conseil de

— Oui, mon colonel. guerre, et que le colonel D ..….

— Et pendant que vous êtes| dont la rude moustache était ici, où sont vos enfants ? humide fut félicité.

—Un ami s'en était chargé 1l mit les deux fillettes au jusqu’à ce jour. 11 vient de|°°"Veni. Et c est une cousola- mourir. Mes enfants sont à|tin de penser si elles sont de- l'andience. venues d’honnêtes femmes,

LE l'éndionne ? eiles le doivent, filles de vain-

AE sn list cu, à un vieux grognard victo-

EL Voblen-vous les voir-3 rieux dont le militarisme, alors

its L r: à — Oui. Gardes, faites avancer | PEU “ nsipenant, H'avais point desséché le cœur. les deux enfants.

On vit alors deux filettes ; FINIR 25 tre l’une de seize ansenviron, l’au-| THE NORTH AMERICAN tre de quatorze ans, adorable-' L1FE ASSURANCE ment jolies, sortir timidement COMPANY de la foule et s'arrêter à la —— barre des témoins, escortées par! The North American Life is un fonctionnaire. one of the first Canadian com-

Le colonel leur sourit ct leur | panies to make public its report dit : for the business of the year

— Nous avons à causer avec 1896. 1t has made it a practice voire papa, mes enfants. Vous since its organization to close allez l’attendre dans une pièce |its books promptly on the last voisine de celle ci. Mais avant, day of the year and forward its vous seriez bien contentes de | Government returns to the Do- l’'embrasser, n'est-ce pas ? |minion Saperintendent of In-

L'ainée répondit : surance.

— Oui, monsieur. The year closed has been more

—Eh, bien, embrassez.le. successful than any preceding

Une émotion violente s’em. | one, in that the new insurances parait du public qui emplissait | issued exceeded those of 1895 la salle et une sympathie allait by 18 per cent., as will be seen de ce père qui pleurait sous les | from the following : caresses de ses filettes an pré-! New Insurance sident, assez humain pour per-|over 18 per cent. mettre cet épanchement| Total Insurance in increased familial, peu en usage avec le |over 10 per cent. cérémonial ordinaire de la jus- | Cash Income Increased over tice. 10 per cent.

Lorsque les pauvretteseurent! Asseis Increased over 9 per enlacé leur père, le colonel re- | cent. prit : |. The North American Life isa

—Maintenant, comme je vous | Policy-nolders’ Company, and l'ai dit, pendant que votre pa |the main object of the manage- pa et moi nous allons causer, ment has been to build up the vousallez vous retirer dans! Company on a solid and sound une Zièce voisine de celle-ci. | basis, and to secure to the Gardes, conduisez ces enfants. members a satisfactory return dans la chambre des témoins et | in the way of profits. That the ne les quittez pas. | Company has been eminently

Ce que fut ce procès, on ne successful in th's, is proven be-

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peut le penser. Le prévenu é-| yond doubt by the general sa-

increased

tait accusé de simples délits de |tisfaction which the results of |

presse, mais risqnait cependant |its matured Investment oli- la déportation.

Le colonel D... dirigea l'in- them, and from the acknowled x terrogatuire de telle façon qu’- | ments thereof published from on crut à l’acquitiement. Une | time {0 time by the Company. condamnation à un mois de) The test of the financial prison fut pourtant prononcée. strength of a Company is gen-

L'auditoire était attentif, an- |erally gauged by the ratio of

xieux. the Compsny's assets to its lia- Lorsqüe le président eut fait bilities, but in some companies connaître le jagement du con-|the paid-up capital stock is not Seil an malheureux père, il parut} treated as à liability. 1f in réfléchir, puis de nouveau il re- | the case of the North American prit ses questions : lit is treated as à liability the —Tont cela est très bien, net surplus is $421,546 20, and mais vos enfants, que vont-elles the ratio of the Company's as- devenir tandis que vous serez sets to its liabilities is $1.20, a en prison. (ratio which will compare very —Je l'ignore, mon colonel. favorably with that of any of —Comment. vous l'ignorez ? our own institutions. À striking —Oui. N'ayant ni parents ni feature of the year's business

cies have given the holders of

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higher test.”

One of the principal features of the life insurance business in Canada is its stability. 1t is regrettable that in some companies while an enormous amount of busi- ness is transacted in the year, a very smali increase js made in the total insurance in force, and sometimes it happens that a decrease results.

President Blaikie, in his ad- mirable address to the policy- hoiders, referred to this point, and iu contrasting the total ter- minations with the insurance issued fouad that the percen- tage of the former to the latter in tle North Americau Life was but 52 per cent. while that ot the other leading Cana- dian and American companies was very considerably higher. . In a very large degree, the high position which the Com. pany has attained, and the ex- cellent results of the year's Bu- siness, are to be attiibuted to the zeal and efforts of William McCabe, LL. B. 1. A., the Com- pany's Managing Director whose name and work have a:ways been identified with the Com- pany, and whose reputation for sound and conservative under- writing is well known in this country, as well as in his own. in the planning and conduct of the business he has been ab. ly assisted by the Company's Secretarv, L. Goldman, A 1. A., whose connection with the Company likewise dates back to the time of its organization- Spectator, New York, February 11th, 1897.

G J. MeCormac, Special A- gent, Charlottetown office, Cor- ner Queen & Sidney Streots.

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tente chez le soldat. 11 saisit l'enfant par les oreilles (il eût voulu l’embrasser, peut être.]! le mena vers la porte, et, Jui appliquant le pied dans le bas) des reins, il le jeta dehors. |

veux tu bien f...le camp et re-! tourner chez ta mère ! |

Puis, s'adressant de nouveau à ceux qui étaient auprès de Jui et désignant les fedérés vaincus :

—1ls ont dont des héros ces) gueux-là ? |

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n.té, de pitié, eut lien à Ver-}

mes enfants. mount paid out on policy-hol- Le co!onel D... laissa bruy-|ders’ account. The Consulting amment tomber son poing sur Actuary, in this connection, la table, —Ca ne peut pas se passer king these relatively large pay-

| c 74 e à } s)+) di 7 comme ça ©? s'écria-t-il. Ces ments for matared Investment July 22. 91 —Sacré brigand ! s’écria-t-il, | enfants ne peuvent être à la policies you have been able to!

be close the yerr again with an

—Elles y serout pourtant increased surplus to your cre- dit ;” and in commenting upon point, The Monetary

mon colonel. | Le colonel se tourna vers les this

| gardes. Times, the leading Canadian —Ramenez moi les enfants, exponent of Insurance and Fi-|! grogna-t-il. Dance, referring to the surplus-

Puis, quand les filettes fu-|earning power ofthe Company,

rent de-rechef devant Jui. stated, “ We could not praise it |

—Mes mignonnes, dit-il. vo-| more strongly, for there is no

says, ‘““Nevertheless, after ma- |

Fuli particulars later.

Apply for prize list, entry | forms and ail information to | John E. Wood

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