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) Good opportunity offered young women desiring permanent work in Toronto to learn wartimes work in the largest established restaurant in Canaâ€" da. Good wages paid, best working conditions and fair Treatment. Write, telephone or call. Childs Co., 158 Yonge St., Toronto. A despatch from London says: Sir George Cave, Home Secretary, anâ€" nounced in the House of Commons that the latest reports of the casualâ€" ties in Wednesday‘s air raid showed that 104 persons had been killed and 154 seriously and 269 slightly injured. Altogether, he said, 120 children were killed or injured. Y «â€"â€"â€"§â€"â€". A despatch from Petrograd says: The Provisional Government has isâ€" sued a decree declaring all acts of military disorder to be insubordinaâ€" ttion, including refusal to fight, and also incitement to fight against the Government. Such acts, says the deâ€" cree, are punishable by long sentences to servitude in the penitentiary and the deprivation of rights to property, and also the right to receive land unâ€" der the coming land redistribution. 120 CHILD VICTIMS RUSS TO PUNISH The Germans have in short estabâ€" lished themselves as masters of Turâ€" key. An espionage service under German supervision is at work in Conâ€" stantinope. _ Christian families espeâ€" cially are spied upon. Everyone is being mobilizedâ€"men, children and even oneâ€"eyed men and men without fingers. Enver Pasha has summonâ€" ed to the colors all men under 51, inâ€" cluding members of the Christian population. _ This action was taken after the visit of Prince Waldemar of Prussia, who in October brought a marshal‘s baton to the Sultan in the: Kaiser‘s name and pressed on thei Sultan the enactment of this law. Christians in Turkey were dispensed{ from wilitary service for the whole period of the war under a law passed when hostilities began on condition that they paid £45. A year ago Christians were made pay an additionâ€" al £30. _ Having thus paid £75 exempâ€" tion, the Christians are now compelled to serve . | A despatch from Amsterdam says: â€"An Armenian who has arrived in Holland fron Constantinople gives the Telegraaf particulars of the condiâ€" tions in the Turkish Empire. â€" He deâ€" picts the administration as wholly under German control. _ While the Ministers themselves are Ottomans, the viceâ€"Ministers, who really manage the Ministries, are Germans. Turkish inscriptions have been removed from the offices of the Ministries and reâ€" placed with notices in German. ‘ Germans in Full Control of Turâ€" key and Everyone is Being Mobilized. CHRISTIANS ARE business section was also visited by MGIt .. .« « cavk««s. sauxrva« clitk WONWENt « «. «c <««««««r««r« MX Childtels . .......%...¢~+/«< 9 No damage of a military or naval nature was done. The raid over the city lasted about fifteen minutes. The largest number of casualties occurred in the East End, but the downtown killed and 487 wounded. squadron of German aeroplanes raided London shortly after eleven on Wedâ€" nesday morning and dropped thirteen bombs. The casualties in the raid, it is officially announced, numbered 97 AIR RAIDERS KILL NEARLY 100 M 15â€"MINUTE ATIACK ON LONDON 437 Injured in Most Severe Raid Yet Made Over England by Gerâ€" ‘â€" man Aircraftâ€"No Damage of Military or Naval Value. A despatch from London says: A Woentere ..«....«.. Chikdrer . «..... FORCED TO FIGHT FURTHER DEFECTIONS. * Te } \mw’:mcboouom». [ € 'l'l.l. PO ‘THAT +â€" AlN) cB | 4 ;_4’ .7. / faf â€" M ? J n / Mn M MA ids W n m 'f£=§x f OF GERMAN AIRMEN. QuaR reRr SANl ToM, Pans¥‘s HYBBY i3 our IN ‘Tue Injured. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO 16 26 _A despatch from London says:â€" Berlin despatches say the food departâ€" _ment has announced that since the !spring sowing had terminated and a | better survery of the old harvost was possible, and conferences concerning | the import of Rumanian grain had ocâ€" | curred, the possibility was assured that the present bread rations would be continued until the new harvest. Potatoes, which are scarce, will be replaced by flour or bread. ‘ Use radishes once in a while as a relish, and the family will appreciate it. 6 | _ From coast to coast the story that | poured in to the treasury all day was | the same, a story of whirlwind finish. ; Telegrams told of tolling bells and | shrieking whistles across the continent marking the last day of the campaign; | of redoubled efforts by the many ’agencies at work for the loan‘s sucâ€" ’cess, of enthusiasm at its highest pitch, of long waiting lines of subâ€" scribers in thousands of banks in every state of the Union. PRESENT BREAD RATIONS UNTIL THE NEW HARVEST A despatch from Washington says: â€"The Liberty Loan campaign entered the home stretch on Thursday with every indication that the tremendous thirtieth day driverthroughout the naâ€" tion would result in getting well beâ€" yond the $2,000,000,000 goal. SUCCESS OF U.S. LIBERTY LOAN Expected To Go Well Beyond the $2,000,000,000 Mark Former King Constantine _ left Athens on Thursday to embark on a British warship. â€" Constantine was acâ€" companied by the former queen and crown prince and other members of the family. _ They left the city by motor car. Prof. Gorgios Streit, former adviser of the Greek Foreign Office, went with Constantine as his secreâ€" No indication has yet reached Lonâ€" don as to the line of policy Eleutherios Venizelos intends to adopt regarding the change in sovereignty in Greece, but he already has declared that at the end of the war he intended to leave to a Greek national convention a revision of the constitution which would aid in depriving the sovereign of the possibility of again interfering with the wishes of the people as exâ€" pressed by their representatives in Parliament. I A despatch from London says:â€"It has been decided that all the members of the Hellenic Royal family, except the new King, will leave Greece, acâ€" companied by the most prominent proâ€" German politicians and military leadâ€" ers who form part of the entourage of former king Constantine. ‘ Proâ€"German Politicians and Miliâ€" tary Leaders Also Must Go. ROYAL FAMILY LEAVE GREECE The Chancellor said all the antiâ€" aircraft guns defending London were brought into action, and that a large number of aeroplanes went up in purâ€" suit of the raiders. Several engageâ€" ments occurred in the air, but the results at present are uncertain. three of the raiders and considerable damage was occasioned. One bomb struck a schoolhouse, killing a large number of children and wounding scores of others. In his statement Chancellor Bonar Law said=twelve to fifteen aeroplanes crossed the coast of North Foreland and proceeded across Essex to Lonâ€" don. Two bombs were dropped on North Foreland, and at 11.30 o‘clock the bombs began to drop in the East End of London. Thirteen bombs fell in the city. The Doings Here are a few things that Marshall Field considered worth remembering: The Value of Time. The Success of Perseverance. The Pleasure of Working. The Dignity of Simplicity. The Worth of Character. The Power of Kindness. The Obligation of Duty. The Wisdom of Economy. The Virtue of Patience. The Improvement of Talent. The Joy of Originating. The captured fort <lies about 175 miles north of the Gulf of Aden,. _A force of Turks to the north of Aden has been long in the way of the British in attempts they have made to adâ€" vance from that city. _ The purpose of the seizure of Fort Saliff may be in facilitation of a movement to work in behind this force and capture or disâ€" perse it. * Fort Saliff is on Kamaran Bay, in Yemen province, southâ€"western Araâ€" bia. â€" Large rock salt works are locatâ€" ed there. Turks Driven Back in Advance From Gulf of Aden. A despatch from London says:â€" Fort Saliff, on the east shore of the Red Sea, has been captured by British warships, it was officially announced Thursday evening. BRITISH CAPTURE |, â€"FORT AT RED SEA : During the first year under prohibiâ€" tion, only fifty commitments have been made to the Manitoba Jail at Brandon, from the western judicial district, as compared with 250 for the preceding year. The provincial jail now holds only seven or eight prisoners, while in former times from 40 to 50 prisonâ€" ers were confined in the building. Settlers are flocking to the Peace River and Grande Prairie districts through the Edmonton immigration office. Since May 19, 110 people have registered, and out of these 31 have gone to Grande Prairie and 33 to Peace River. Capt. Chas. P. McCallum, of Calâ€" gary, who went away with the first contingent and who has been promoted on the field, is mentioned> in deâ€" spatches for conspicuous bravery. A Saskatchewan farmer, sixty years of age, had his first ride on a railway train the other day when he travelled from Lebret, on the Grand Trunk Paâ€" cific, to Refia. The Manitoba Board of Health plan to have all abattoirs and slaughter houses in the province duly licensed and under inspection by July 1st. During the month of May nearly 8,000 children were vaccinated in the City of Winnipeg. The average was more than 125 a day. } The buildings and storage tanks of the Western Oil Company, at Moose Jaw have been destroyed by fire to the extent of $6,000. Three bread firms in Moose Jaw have amalgamated to be known as the Moose Jaw Bread Company. The only woman nominated in the Alberta election contest was Mrs Mcâ€" Kinney, of Claresholm. Two Calgaryn officers, home o leave, are Capt. D. B. Niblock and Lient. A. C. Landale. Winnipeg Public Library now has 75 books printed for the use of the blind. A Big Ranchers‘ Fair and Livestock Show will be held in Moose Jaw in July. The Province of Alberta has 49 towns. Alberta telephone employes are on strike in Edmonton. From The Middle West Items From ‘Provinces Where Many Ontario Boys and Girls Are Worth While N ONTARIO AND BRIâ€" TISH COLUMBIA. hemipepiince "aos P ditearte Ssnnd |T. Eaton Company at 50c. per 1b., live lweight. Premium lists will be out in a few days and will contain all the | old and several new classes. Is the slogan of the Toronto Fat Stock Show, who announce their Eighth Anâ€" nual Exhibitionâ€"in this issue, to be held at the Union Stock Yards an Namam. at the Union Stock Yards, on Decemâ€" ber 7th and 8th next. Our readers will remember the record prices paid at the Auction Sale at last year‘s show, the gra.flx‘ud Ch&mpion being bought by the | _ Toronto, June 19â€"Choice heavy steers, $11.35 to $11.75; good heavy steers, $11 |to $11.25; butchers‘ cattle, choice, $10.90 to $11.25; do., good, $10.65 to $10.85; do., medium, $9.50 to $10; do., common, $8.25 to $8.85; butchers‘ bulls, choice, $10 to ; $10.50; do., good bulls, $9.25 to $9.50; do., medium bulls, $8 to $8.50; do., rough | bulls, $6 to $6.10;" butchers‘ cows, choice, $10 to $10.25; do., Ggood, $9 to $9.50; do., medium, $8 to $8.50; stockers, $7.50 to $8.50; feeders, $9.25 to $9.75; canners and cutters, 55.50 to $6.50; milkers, good to choice, $80 to $110; ‘do., com. and med., each, $40 to $60; springers, $85 to $110; light ewes, $8.50 to $9.50; sheep, heavy, $7 to $8; yearlings, $11.50 to $12.50; calves, good to choice, $13 to $15; spring lambs, each, 16c to 18%¢; lambs, choice, $15 to $16; do., medium, $11; hogs, fed and watered, $15.50; do., ;vle‘lgged off cars, $15.15; do., f.o.b., .4 0. inklontrealh June 19â€"Sheep, $8.50 to ' Minneapolis, June 19â€"Wheatâ€"July, {$2.55; September, $1.95%; cash, No. 1 hard, $3.20 to $3.25; _No. 1 Northern, ;3.10 to $3.15; No. 2 Northern, $3.00 to 3.10, Cornâ€"No. 3 yellow, $1.66% to $1.684. _ Oatsâ€"No. 3 white, 66#o 68c. |Flourâ€"Fancy patens, $15.50; first clears, Iua.so; others unchanged. Bran, $26.00 !to $27.00. _ _ Duluth, June 19â€"Wheatâ€"No. 1 hard, ; $3.01, nominal; No. 1 Northern, $3.00, nominal; No. 2 Northern, $2.35, nominal; !July, 82.6;',‘ nominal. _ Linseedâ€"$3.14; Montreal. June 19â€"Sheep, $8 $10; _ yearling lambs, $11.50 to spring lambs, $7 to $10; calves, $12; select hogs, $15.75 to $16.25. ______ Live Stock Markets October, $2.90. Winnipeg, June 19â€"Cash quotationsâ€" Wheatâ€"No. 1 Northern, $2.62; No. 2 Northern, $2.59; No. 3 Northern, $2.55; No. 4, $2.43; No. 5, $2.18; No. 6. $1.78; feed, $1.35. Oatsâ€"No. 2 C.W., 69’0; No. 3 C.W., 67§¢; extra No..1 feed, 67§c; No. 1 feed, 65%¢c; No. 2 feed, 63ic. Barleyâ€" No. 3, $1.30; No. 4, $1.%5; rgec!ed. $1.09; feed, $1.09. Flaxâ€"No. 1 W .G., ;Z:g No. 2 C.W., $2.83%; No. 3 C.W.] natants | nhatea SHEREA chantirs sarpen tents, choice, $13.75; strnl{ht rollers, g‘lls to $18.30; do., blgl. $6.25 to $6.40. olled oatsâ€"Barrels, $9.00; bags, 90 lbs., $4.35. Bran, $34. Shorts, $40.. Middâ€" lings, $42 to $44. Mouillie, $46 to $51. Hayâ€"No. 2, per ton, car lots, $18 to 313.50. Cheeseâ€"Finest westerns, 21%¢; nest easterns, 21%c. Butterâ€"Choicest creamery, 38§ to 39¢; seconds, 874 to 38c. Eggsâ€"Selected, 40c; No. 1 stock, 37¢; No. 2 stock, 34 to 85c. Potatoesâ€" Per bag, car lots, $4.25 to $4.50. Montreal, _ June 19â€"Oatsâ€"Canadian Western, No. 2, T8ic; do., No. 3, 77¢; extra No, 1 feed, 77c. Barleyâ€"Man. feed, $1.20. Flourâ€"Man. Spring wheat ?atents. firsts, $13.90; do., seconds, 18.40; strong bakers‘, $13.20; Winter Smoked meatsâ€"Hams, medium, 30 to 31c; do., heavy, 26 to 27¢; cooked, 41 to 42%¢; rolls, 27 to 28¢; breakfast bacon, 33 to 36¢; backs plain, 36 to 37¢; boneâ€" less, 39 to 40c. Lardâ€"Pl.u-e lard, tierces, 27i%c; tubs, 2730; ga Is, 28¢; compound, tlerces, 21%c; tubs, 21i¢c; pails, 2%c. Cured mea.tlâ€"LonT clear bacon, 25 to 2654c per lb; clear bellies, 24 to 25¢. Honeyâ€"Combâ€"Extra fine and heavy weight, per doz., $2.75; select, $2.50 to $2.15; No. 2, $2 to $2.25. Maple u):ugâ€"-lmperln.l gallon, $1.75. Potatoes n track Ontario, per bug. $4.25; Albertas, per bag, $4.00; P.EL reds, bag, $4.00. "Héa}:"-iixii;p‘&ud. handâ€"picked, $9.00 to $9.50 per bush; Limas, per lb., 19 to 20c. _ Cheeseâ€"New large, 24¢c; twins, 24%¢c; triplets, 24%c; old, large, 294¢c; twins, 30¢c; triplets 30%c. f Dressed poultryâ€"Spring chickens, 60¢; fowl, 24 to 25¢; squabs, per doz., $4.00 to $4.50; turkeys, 25 to 30c. Live poultryâ€"-l?rln. chickens, lb., 40 to 45¢; hens, lb., 22 to 25¢. _ _Eggsâ€"Newâ€"laid, in cartons, 42%¢; out of cartons, 40c. Buttorâ€"Cnamot{. solids, {er Ib., 364 to 37¢; grlnt-. rer b., 37 to $7i¢; dairy, per lb., 31 to 32c. Wlâ€"?er doz., 34 to 85¢. olesalers are -ellln’ to "the retail trade at the following prices:â€" Butterâ€"Fresh dairy, choice, 38 to 39¢; creamery prints, 40 to 41c; solids, 40c. _ Strawâ€"Car lots, per ton, $9, track Toronto. & "}iig;mtn. No. 2, per ton, $13.00 to $13.50; mixed, per ton, $9 to $11.50, track ‘Toronto. Millfeedâ€"Car lots, delivered Montreal freights, bags includedâ€"Bran, per ton, $33; shorts, per ton, ;40; middlings ?or :onhl:;: good feed flour, per bag, $2.80 o $2.90. _Ontario flourâ€"Winter, , according to sample, $11.50 to $11.60, Tn bags, track Toronto, prompt shipment _ _ __ _ _ _ Manitoba flourâ€"First patents, in bags, :18.80; second gctontl, in bags, $13.30;_ strong bakers‘, â€"in bags, $12.90, Toronto. C Peasâ€"No. 2, nominal, according to freights outside. Barleyâ€"-Ma.lur:‘g. nominal, according to freights outside. n Is _ Ryeâ€"No. 2, $2.00, nominal, according to freights outside. . ESn eubE Lib h Toronto, June 48#â€"Manitoba wheatâ€" No. 1 Northern, $2.78; No. 2 do., $2.175, nominal, track Bay ports. Manitoba catsâ€"No official quotations. American cornâ€"No. 3 yellow, $1.83, nominal, track Toronto. Ontario oatsâ€"No official quotations. Ontario wheatâ€"No. 2 Winter, per car lot, $2.60 to $2.65; do., No. 3, $2.58 to $2.63, according to freights outside. _ . Markets of the World FROM SUNSET COAST "BETTER THAN USUAL" Country Produceâ€"Wholesale United States Markets Provisionsâ€"Wholesale Winnipeg Grain 8, $11.50 to $12; $10; calves, $7 to ute ute ute One of these, the town of Circle, was so named because it was erroneously ithought to be upon the Arctic circle; which parallel, as has been since disâ€" covered, cuts the river at a point near the mission and trading post of Fort Yukon, many miles farther north, and is indicated by a white globe painted upon a signâ€"board on the shore. Circle was once the largest tentâ€"city in the world, but its white inhabitants are now hardly a score. _ It is said that in its well populated cemetery are the graves of only two persons who have died natural deaths; the others buried there have been shot or committed suicide. e | _ The primeval forest on its banks has in most places no inhabitants except moose, caribou, bear, lynx, and other wild animals. _ Some of these can be seen from the boat upon the shores or swimming in the water. Here and there are a few Indian cabins, or the lodge of a woodâ€"chopper who supplies the steamers with fuel, and a few minâ€" ing camps, now almost empty, and owing their present limited existence principally to the fur trade. ‘ He who has not seen the Yukon, the Klondyke which empties into it, and those who live near their banks has not seen Alaska. The Yukon flows 2000 miles or more, outmeandering the Meander river in its coils and twists, near one point passing the same hill five timesâ€"through a wilderness almost pathless, which the greater part of the way has remained unâ€" changed _ since the discovery of America. Beautiful Scenery and Interesting Inhabitants Offsets Rough Life. For those who are strong and do not mind coarse food, roughnecks and rough treatment, when counterbalancâ€" ed by beautiful scenery and interestâ€" ing men a voyage upon the river Yukon is an experience not to be reâ€" gretted . The Swedish Viceâ€"Consul at Vanâ€" couver is now in charge of the Austroâ€"Hungarian affairs formerly in charge of the United States Consul, and he is also looking after the interâ€" ests of Turks in this province. A band of nearly 200 Russians, accompanied in many instances by the members of their families, have left Vancouver en route to their native land, after years of exile in the United States. A proposal to make the lights of the city of Vancouver represent the national colors during exhibition time by having red, white and blue ones was made before the city exhibition committee. Harbor facilities on the south shores of Burrard Inlet have extendâ€" ed until the docks cover an area of 1,384,845 square feet and the wharves extend for over 2% miles. Following a paralytic stroke, Siâ€" mon Leiser, one of the oldâ€"timers of British Columbia, died at the resiâ€" dence of his daughter, Mrs. Milton Oppenheimer, Vancouver. The formation of a new shipbuildâ€" ing company for Victoria, capitalized for initial purposes at $500,000, was announced at a meeting of the Board of Trade. The Vancouver police department has sent out some 600 notices to cigar dealers and others to the effect that dice shaking must be disconâ€" tinued. The seal menace on the Fraser River, B.C., was effectually put an end to by the explosion of mines which blew the herd of 200 into atoms. Another Vancouver boy, Albert J. Stevens, son of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Stevens, was killed in the heavy fighting around Vimy Ridge. Statistics recently issued by the port warden of Seattle indicate that Vancouver‘s foreign trade is largely in excess of that of Seattle. A scarcity of logs has resulted in keeping about 25 per cent. of the lumber and shingle mills in British Columbia idle. The oolichans, which were running in large numbers a short timg Ago, are only being caught in small numâ€" bers now. THE SPELL OF THE YUKON wWHAT THB WESTERN PEOPLB ARE DOING. Paragraphs. Great West Told The owner was overjoyed and gave the man a bandsome reward. _ But the droshky" driver was dumfounded and could not understand the reason for his patron‘s generosity. . When, at last, he learned that the little leather book had contained a small fortune, his sorrow and disappointâ€" ment knew no bounds. _ He could not get over his astonishment, and finally hanged himself in disgust at the thought that God had sent him all that money and he had not taken it! The owner was, of course, in a state of great perturbation, and informed the police, who forthwith summoned every day a number of the thousand drivers in Petrograd to report themâ€" selves. At last they found the missâ€" ing one and charged him with the theft; but the poor fellow was astounded, and stoutly denied having taken either the money or the papers. The police searched the cab, and there, sure enough, was the missing portfolio with its contents intact. 1 The average peasant holds very curious ideas on réligion and the will of the Almighty, a characteristic that the author of Petrograd, Past and Preâ€" sent illustrates by means of an amusâ€" ing story. _ A droshky driver once drove a gentleman to a certain bank. His fare, who had money and valuable papers with him, pushed them under the cushions for safety while he did his business; but on returning he found to his dismay that the man had driven off, taking with him the portâ€" folio, which contained among other things notes to the value of severnll thousand rubles. ‘ Russian Ideas, Russian peasants have the kind of credulity that arises from a vivid irsagination. _ If you tell one of the daily life in Paris or in Londonâ€"of the tubes, the underground railways, the telephonesâ€"he will tell you plainly that you are jesting with him; but if you should assert that silver and gold were scattered about the streets, he would believe you implicitly, for he has heard many stories of the wealth of the French and the English. Fairy tales and miracles are his native mental fare; facts concern him very{ little. Story Which Illustrates Some Curious "Two months ago a French attack on Moronvillers failed because this impregnable tunnel could not be capâ€" tured." â€""The gun started firing thousand pound shells and the infantry was orâ€" dered to advance at a certain minute. Two hours before the time set for the advance a half ton shell planted itself squarely in the mouth of the tunnel, killing half of the men inside, blockâ€" ading the exist and wrecking the transverse corridors. The French adâ€" vanced and took several hundreds of prisoners without suffering a loss. "On May 20 the French prepared to rush the impregnable positions on Mount Cornillet and Mount Teton. Photographs taken by their aviators showed an immense system of tunnels which apparently concealed German reserves. A single entrance was loâ€" cated and the operator of a French 15â€" inch gun ten miles away was told to put a shell in the entrance. f A despatch from London says: This story of modern warfare is relatâ€" ed by an official authority who has been on the front in Champagne: French Halfâ€"Ton Projectile Hits Mark Ten Miles Distant. DEC. 7th & 8th, 1917 FAT STOCK SHOW ‘AN OPPORTUNITY LOST. Union Stock Yards STRUCK BY SHELL Ficere Annvat / ‘TORONTO TOâ€"DAY ed and liberalized to an extent that would not have been possible in so short a time but for the stress of war conditions. The banks in particular, 6eing under the influence of a Govâ€" ernment determined to keep business going on just as extensively as posâ€" sible, give valuable assistance and learn a great deal about the possibiliâ€" ties of widening their credits and helpâ€" ing enterprise. ’ Basis of Prosperity. The basis of the war time prosperâ€" ity is the foreign trade of the counâ€" try, which has been sustained in a marvellous measure by investments abroad. When the war ends England expects to be ready for an era of forâ€" eign trade expansion and manufacturâ€" ing development such as she has not known before. The examples of Gerâ€" many with her system of cartels and of the great American trusts are beâ€" ing studied. British industrial and commercial methods are even now being modernizâ€" C t +i Lt k .. : 3,000,000 Persons Saving. In the first two months of this }ear the class of small investors loaned about $200,000,000 to the Government. ’There are in England and Wales alone on the books of the war savings ’auocintions between 2,000,000 and 8,000,000 members, nearly all of them people who had not previously atâ€" tempted systematically to save and who have been induced to do so by the system of collective savings. The savâ€" ings associations undertake to aggreâ€" gats together the small amounts brought in by their members and to invest them in a lump. Children in the schools, pensioners, tradesmen, laâ€" borers, artisans, waiters, farm workâ€" ers; in fact, every class of people is represented among these millions who are now learning, and learning to enâ€" joy, the art of saving. | Last year‘s revenue, aside from \loans, was nearly $350,000,000 more ; than the Chancellor of the Exchequer ‘had estimated in the preparation of jhis budget. r In preparing the new budget this year the Chancellor has been guided by what now seems a reasonable preâ€" sumption that the feverish and unnaâ€" tural prosperity of war times will conâ€" tinue, and so has presumed to demand still further contributions from the public. Nobody seems to doubt that he will get them. Some new duties have been imposed, some taxes have been increased, some readjustments have been made, but the general effect is a frank acceptance of still larger burdens and a cdhfident expectation that they will be met. $23,000,000,000. It is doubtless perfectly true that England is eating up her capital; but it is also true that the nation is deâ€" monstrating a capacity to do busiâ€" ness under distressing circumstances, to dig up revenues, to carry burdens such as no fiscal authority on earth would have suspected could be disâ€" played under such a stress. _ It must be understood that this $2,â€" 500,000,000 was the revenue coming from taxation, in one form or another. The receipts from taxation as thus stated are very different from the toâ€" tal receipts of the British : Governâ€" ment for the year ended March, 1917. During that year from taxation and from loans of all sorts the Governâ€" ment‘s receipts were approximately \ $2,500,000,000. In 1897 the United Kingdom‘s reâ€" venue was roughly $550,000,000, while for the year 1910â€"11 it nearly doubled this figure. The war has brought an expansion of the public revenue such as no financial authority could have imagined possible. For the year 1912â€" 13 the United Kingdom‘s revenue was just about $900,000,000. For the first full year of the war, that is the year ended March, 1916, the revenue was approximately $1,500,009,000, and for the year ended March 10, 1917, it reached the stupendous total of $2,â€" 500,000,000. a BUT BUSINESS IS THRIVING DEâ€" _SPITE THIS FACT. nue For Lest ~Fiscal ~Year . Reaches Stupendous Total of Biggor Burdens Faced. Revenue From Taxation. Future Outlcok. 4J 7€ i am a squirrel blithe and nj And frolic here from day to The city is my happy home, J Within its parks I like to roam Perhaps you think it rather qu That I should love to wander And never long for forests free Where other squirrels like to | Bo oft I send a grateful though To southern farmers who have The waste lands, and by daily With peanuts have enriched th The peanut is a useful nut, For food, for oil, for forageâ€"b I wish the farmers all might s The joy their peanuts bring to But never need I hunt for food, Nor store up nuts as squirrels For I have many a little friend With peanuts they my wants a The "Giveâ€"Away" Garden. When the school gardens we: celed out last year, Rose an Marlow received plots in a vacant lot. _ The man who 0 lot gladly had it spaded and for the children‘s gardening. "I shall hope to see roses an bages where weeds and hay germs used to flourish," he tol and Rose gravely. _ And they n resolution that he should not h appointed . It was not as easy job, they discovered. _ Cutworms and ne must be met and conquered. Bu and Rose were there early weeding, sprinkling, hoeing a ing Their bright eyes spied . garden enemy that plotted to £ creep in, and their nimble finger put an end to any such foe. The vegetable and blossom began to thrive, eager to repa faithful care. _ By midsumm was putting into his little wagon bunches of fresh, green crisp curly lettuce and roly= radishes that Rose had washed fully and arranged in neat Besides, there were pink and la sweet peas, nasturtiums and alyssum to lend beauty to the useful products. . Mrs, Marlow mother, had first choice, and small peddlers just what the h in the street demanded. Th plenty left to sell after that, children were so polite, and wares so tempting, that the li elephant on the shelf swallo ough nickels and dimes to fill geveral times over. _ Tom lieved the bursting beast, and treasure in a tin tea box. boys in the neighborhood. win Miss Moore‘s prize for paying#garden, when she judges mother!" "I‘ve made over twice as m Rose," Tom announced one « August, "and more than any Â¥other Jooked with questionin at her brightâ€"eyed daughter . "You have worked as faithfu Tom," she said, puzzled, "Why h you earned as much ?" Rose‘s flower face flushed an golden head drooped. She di goiden head Grooped, oNe 0 quite know how to tell her 1 about it. "Because," explained Tom, : ashamed for getting his loyal ; into trouble, "because she‘s away most of her garden." Mother‘s eyes softened with standing, and she drew Rose side . "Always a generous Tairy, @ business matters," she said, smi "Oh, but I love to, mother!" 1 ered Rose eagerly. "I‘m makin ough money; and besides, it‘ more fun to give them away." When R sweet peasâ€"th or cheery gold "She loves 1 would say, ECC COnee CRERE miringly, "My, J hope my c will grow to be just like you! a help you must be to your m At the Shultzes‘ Rose alwa twice the amount of produce "They need it so, and they‘re She works so hard, and those must eat bushels!" she told T day, when they talked it over. When the prizes were giv Miss Moore presented Tom beautiful Honor Badge for earned the largest amount f garden. ‘Then, to the little astonishment, she pinned a ti pin to Rose‘s dress. "For the one who shared den with all," said the ing. â€" "A little bird told me Rose of the ‘Giveâ€"Away‘ Ga all the others applauded.â€" Companion. Amn'-mw"'"} 4f he doesn‘t throw it in your d ore fun to give them Later her mother hea id SAY YOUNG FOLKS The City Squirre Then she : "Mv, J hop« An C 1d say to Tom 1 rheumatizzy t Aucky I have t wer in Mrs m we wiry re e rom| Shultz the litt] M by