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foot high, ;xz stroke of n; beside it w stroke of ficult curve ot make it, empts inviue NA inderâ€"rate. il! the mo Evidently truction as w satiafaction red â€" stroke. ked. yiekled the gTrA ntured, for @r is an cheery part mil. Grase »rdered the you noar ‘ to be he replied con begins to i 1 could upon the M W th@ ind hig s most rayon, rvey ed rned m ai »|t@ all LN= a W NILE DESERT TO FLOWER THROUGH BRITISH IRRIGATION PROJECT Undeterred by threats of revolt, Great Britain is planning vast irrigaâ€" tlion work for her protectorate of Egypt which will double the present area of cultivation and enormously inâ€" prease the prosperity of the people. More than threefourths of the counâ€" try is atill desert, and it is proposed to regulate the waters of the Nile in upper Egypt so that a large area on both sides of the river shall be roâ€" @laimed. Irrigation is vital to Egypt, for without it there could be no crops and a general famine would reault. This work will be the first great construction project to be launched since the war. An Irrigation commisâ€" wion has been naned to study the question on the White and Blue Nile and has already arrived on the ground. It consiats of four engineerâ€" iIng experts. Their work will carry them far south of the limits of the Egyptian QGovernment‘s exclusive sphere into the Angloâ€"Egyptian Sudan, to Khartum, where the waters of the White and the Blue Nile mest. The river has many @lHasos during its eourse, the lougost of any waterway en the globe, next to the Missizsipp!. From its source in Lake Victorla to Lake Albert, about 200 miles, it is known as the Albert Nile; thence to lake No, 600 miles, as the RBahrâ€"o!}â€" Jebel. Then it becomes. the White Nile to Khartum, where the Nile pro~} per begins. Abovs that point the princ!pal affluent is the Sobat, southâ€"| west of Fasboda, while below Kharâ€" | tum the Atbara is the only tributary. | The Nile drains a basin of 1,107,227 ; equare miles, a little less than lhei Mississippi and the Obi, or the Congo, | with 1,425,000 square miles, or the | mighty Amawon, with 2,722,000 square miles, draining twofliths of South America. Northwest of Lake Victoria the Nilse and Congo have a common wutershed divided only by small eleâ€" vations. From the low hills of Darâ€" fur the Nile valley sharply contracts till it approaches within a fow miles of the river at the grout bend between The scarcity of millfeeds in Canâ€" ada is directly traceable to the lack of a market for flour and the conseâ€" quent decrease in the volume of domâ€" estic milling, the millers state. They have asked the Government to modiâ€" fy the regulations of the Wheat A despatch from Ottawa says:â€"A material advance in the price of flour in Canada is indicated in an announceâ€" ment made here on behaif of Canâ€" adian millers by George A. Macdonâ€" ald, representing the Quaker Oats Company, and head of a delegation of representative millers which wa.tâ€" ed on the Government to discuss the serious situation which Canadian mills are facing as a result of the action of the Canadian Wheat Board in continuing the restriction in the price of flour on the Canad.an market, and the lack of export markets for Canadian flour. The increase will be necessary to meet the increasing cost of manufacture, it is understood. down by the Nile from the luxuriant lake region and deposited over the sundy bottom that makes :. or Egypt one of the most productiv> regions of the world in the reatricted grea of the deit«, once the granary of the Roman empire. For 5,000 years the~Egyp tians have been trying to catch this @lluvial deposit and as yet have oniy partially succeeded. HMarodotus mentlons their efforts at a very early period of history and he bimself, about the year 480 B.C., made & jJourney up the river as far as the Arst cataract at Assuan, where the great dam, fAnished in 1902, has conâ€" siderably obliterated the rapids. The §5,000 Years of Endeavor. This is the enemy that the irrigaâ€" tion commission has set out to conâ€" quer. Water alone will not do it, for as soon as the supply is withdrewn the land would again become dry and inâ€" fertile. It is the rich loam brought MUST INCREASE PRICE OF FLOUR Result of Action of Wheat Board and Lack of Export Markets. Jv the SWHY CERTAINLY mMrs «eLLy! send | THE PBABY RIGKT ovyeq â€" ILL BE , QnNLY TOO GLAD | To _ rAND NIM _wlh /y 1 : f "l S\%$ ""-'.-'â€".‘-A ‘ _ Smss MRS KELLY! h lBonrd and to coâ€"operate with the millers in inducing foreign buyers to | take a reasonable proportion of Canâ€" | adian wheat as flour rather than as | wheat. story of Joseph and his brethren is evidence of the conservation of grain in Egypt and the dependence of surâ€" rounding countries upon the land of the Nile for their supplies in times of dearth. A despatch iromm London says:â€" The Li~yd George Conlition Governâ€" ment scored its expected victory in the House of Commons when the new Irish Home Rule Bill passed its secâ€" cond reading, which is tantamount to its becoming law, by a vote of 848 to 04. The oppos.tion votes were confined to the Nationalists, Laborites and exâ€" Premier Asquith‘s few followers. The division followed a speech by Premier Lloyd George. Even in those early days there was an attempt to catch the alluvium of the Nile in Lake Moeris, south of Memphis, and above the head of the delta formed by the Rosetta and Damietta branches of the river. The annual rise of the river overflowed inâ€" to the lake, and when the stream fell in the dry season the water poured back through the channel and was diverted by sluices to the ground to be irrigated. The lake has now shrunk in area and subsided more than 200 feet and its outflow ceased about 230 B.C., but the system of retaining the waters of the river in a basin by which the surrounding country can receive an annual fooding has been continued to this day. Vast quantities of flour are said to be available in the United States for export, and this complicates the Canâ€" adian problem. It is said that more than 4,000 men have already been thrown out of employment by forced Irish Home Rule Passed Second Reading closing down of the mills, of which there are about 500 in Canada. The greatest problem for the eng! _ Ryaâ€"No. 3, $1.83 to $1.85, accordâ€" neer is to catch a« much as poss.b.¢ inp to fre.ghts outside. i of the rich alluvium by preventing its “}hg}t’ogg flI?urâ€"gWCrnment standâ€" > aposi ard, $13.25, Toronto. ' 3:;’“1:&:':1: m;x::..f:;e d.:rp‘::):h;a‘ut!‘ 3:: \ _ Ontario flourâ€"Government standâ€" lcke 5 .25 to $10.45, Montreal or Toâ€" each side of the Nile is away from "di $10.27 to Dass i’rom t shipment. the river, so that at food it was easy mg{?l'lfl:e&-‘::la:{o.ts dellgcredpfi‘ont:( to top it and let the mud ch@rs@d L.,1 freight, bags includedâ€"Bran, per water flow over the farms to & depth ;,p, $45; .f‘ofl., per ton, $52; good of about a yard. The mud was &radâ€" feed flour, $3.60 to $3.175. ; ually deposited and after a month or Hg?'â€"--No. 1, per ton, $28 to ‘30;j six weeks the water, then almost mived. per ton, $26 to $28, track. | clear, was run off into the falling Strawâ€"Car lots, per ton, $16 to river. The ground usually was roughâ€"| $17, track, Toronto. ! iy plowed in November and planted | ns f with grain that sprouted in Aprlll Ch(;zi':f:ilxo‘hl'::g_ewg%‘”g..%cx without other watering. 'twin'«u 20%% to 30¢;‘ triplets, 80% Doubled Cotton Crops. | to 81c:é'28tig.orl,t 818 tosgbg; gl2d§'§ large, ve 1. tuy .| 81 to 32¢; do, twins 0 c. o r’) profent ho I0os 4 "], ,"m ‘deA: Butterâ€"â€"Fresh dairy, choice, 65 to posits a French engincer under Me 66e; creamery prints, 67 to 68c hemeot All designed two bridges across | fiarmm‘neâ€"â€"S% to 38c. * the Rosetta and Damietta branches at Eggaâ€"â€"New laid, 55 to 56c. the head of the delta so constructed | Prossed poultryâ€"â€"Sgfln‘ chickens, that the arches could be closed by | 40 to 42¢c; roosters, 25¢; fowl, 85¢; drop gates diverting the water to side turkeys, 58 to 60¢; duek'llngn. 88 to cunals. _ British engineers completed ; 40¢c; geese, 82 to 35¢; squabs, dor., these structures in 1890 and the re-;‘sfp- itryâ€"Son 30 sult was that the fiveyear average| ive poultryâ€"Spring chickens, cotton crop, ending in 1884, amountâ€" :‘(’) ?2“0}::“’12'6 ig t2%c40c; ducks, 35 to Ing to 123,000 tons, was raiged by& E’efn::élnudiln, finnd-picked, bus., 1898 to 251,200 tons. In 1900 there| 4 § were about 2,100 miles of basin canals. | }iffn:f 83%7255' &fi;ns._;b;“ ct:ng‘:llfi?.' A slinilar barrage was built across | Iimas, 18% to 17%¢c; Madagascar the river at Assint, finished in 1902 in | Limas, Ib., 15¢; Japan Limn, 1b., 11¢. time to avert disaster from the low | _ _Honeyâ€"Extracted clover, bâ€"lb. tins, Nile of that year, Extension of the 27 to 28¢; 10â€"lb. tins, 25 to 26¢; 60â€"1b. area of cultivation made more and ; tins, 25¢; buckwheat, 60â€"1b. tins, 18 to more deraands upon the river, and ltlfg‘:; coabz'slgoaszedt: $6.50 doz.; was realized that if the perenmall ;fi:]e .product-:â€"-By:ub per imp system were to be continued the | p,1,, &'25; per 5 imp. gals., $4.00. _ waters of the river would have to bei mmummemnmee: stored up during flood time. This reâ€" | Provis‘onsâ€"Wholesale. sulted in the great Assuan dam, finishâ€" | ESmoked meatsâ€"Hams, med., 88 to ed December 10, 1902, which stores ; ~~ ns * vars asrmeve me Thus the great river is harnessed to the uses of man from Assuan to the wea. It is now proposed to extend this work far to the south to make the deserts of the Sudan fertile for the years to come. This great work of construction _ foreshedows the deâ€" velopment of the African continent to the beneiit of the world at large. up the water, becoming full in March. As the demand for water increases, the sluices, by which it is pierced, are gradually opened until July, when the current is allowed to flow freely. Buy Thrift Stamps C Tessz esWMillk dlitksarâ€"aammet" _ 5 p LA Li & _ 3z esd ,{,/i'/,/ . e Â¥ i Markets of the World Breadstuffs. Toronto, April 6.â€"Man. wheatâ€" No. 1 Northern, $2.80; No. 2 Northâ€" ern, $2.77; No. 8 Northern, $2.73, in store Fort William. Manitoba oatsâ€"No. 2 C.W., 98¢; No. 3 C.W., Q4c; extra No. 1 feed, 94¢; No. 1 feed. 6.%; No. 2 feed, 92¢, in store Fort William. â€" S e h Manitoba â€" barleyâ€"No. 3 C.W,, $1.64%; No. 4 C.W., $144%; rejected, $1.32%; feed, $1.32%, in store Fort William. ty Po o tA American cornâ€"No. 3 yellow, $1.93, nominal, track, Toronto; prompt shipâ€" ment. Ontario oatsâ€"No. 3 white, $1.03 to $1.05, according to freights outside. , ds lt 4040 00 inlsâ€"Prandy +./ dat" * wir‘adss t in Ontar o whestâ€"No. 1 Winter, per car lot, $2 to $2.01; No. 2, do, $1.98 to $2.01; No. 3 do, $1.92 to $1.98, f.0.b. shipping points, sccording to freights. Ontario wheatâ€" No. 1 Spring, per car lot, $2.02 to $2.03; No. 2 do, $1.98 to $2.07; No. 8 do, $1.95 to $2.01, f.0.b. shipping &oints, according to freights. Peasâ€"No. 2, $3.00. Barleyâ€"Malting, $1.78 to $1.80, acâ€" cording to freights outside. _ § _ Buckwheatâ€"$1.65 to $1.70,â€"accordâ€" ing to freights Aqu_t._lit‘lo. oi T. _ Ryaeâ€"No. 3, $1.838 to $1.85, accordâ€" ing to fre.ghts outside. Hheen 4. ronto, in jute bags. Frompt shipment.| easd Hanmtas O in & Mll!feeJâ€"Car lots, del&ered Montâ€" mg‘:rgo%P:"'?:l t.m'c‘“' 30 to 3014¢; al freight. bags includedâ€"â€"Bran, per® 200L POE 10 018) pallsâ€" A0N to 9l Me: real freig $ gs inclu + P ints, 31% to 32¢. Compound tierces ton, $45; shorts, per ton, $52; good gg% to 29¢c: tubs '29 to 29%¢; fl.' feed flour, $3.60 to $3.75. | 204 to 29%'(:. prints 30 to w'%” * H.?-A-v.\'o. 1, per ton, $28 to $30;) Â¥ * C mived. per ton, $26 to $28, track. l Strawâ€"Car lots, per ton, $16 to Montreal Markets. $17, track, Toronto. ‘___Montru_]l April 6.â€"Oats, Canadian szruwâ€"C%rlof;, ;;;-t‘;n:mfig e Montr ?o:tn'.llsmâ€".ge:.'& di $17, track, Toronto. ontrea pril 6. ats, nadian stt im !Wentern No. 2, lgl.lfi; Can. Western Country Produceâ€"Wholesale. | No. 3, ‘1.10%; lour, new standard Cheeseâ€"New, latgs, 20 to 30¢; grade, $18.25 to $18.55; Rolled oats, twins, 29%% to 80c¢; triplets, 80% ‘g‘, 90 ibs., $5.50 to $5.60. Bran, to 81¢c; Stilton, 88 to 84¢c; old, large, $45.256. Shorts, $52.25. Hay, No. 2, 81 to :'32c; go, thwi(rlu{ 82 tgo?Z%cs.s tol ger tton, :t" lot-,26$80 tgfifi!l. %b‘t::.r' Butterâ€"Fres airy, cholce, nest easterns, to i u b6e; creamery 3prints,886c’7 to 68c. g;hoilc’elt creamery, 64 to 651:6 Eg(l: Margarineâ€"83 to * resh, 55c. Potatoes, per bag, car Eggsâ€"New laid, 56 to 56c. _ _ _ | lots, $4.30 to $4.40.. Lard, pure, wood Drossed poultryâ€"Sgrlng chickens,‘ pails, 20 lbs. net, 80 to 80&::. 40 to 42¢; roosgarl,d lick'hfowl,sgli;:;I o tnte es turkeys, 58 to 60c; ducklings, 0 40¢c; geese, 82 to 35¢c; squabs, doz.,| m____l"’"Ԥ3ck.u‘;|“_'f:‘_ sls "REG‘LAR FELLERS"â€"By Gene Byrnes DO YOU REMEMBER? 40c; do, heavy, 20 to 80¢c; cooked, 54 to b6¢c; rolis, 80 to 81¢; breakfast ; bacon, 48 to 48c; backs, plain, 50 to | b2e; ‘boneless, 52 to 56c. Cured meatsâ€"Long clear bacon, 31 | to 82¢; clear bellies, 30 to 81c. _ Newly appointed British Ambassaâ€" dor to the United States. o @10, UU, $UDU, @10,10 MB @L5j U9j med., $10 to $10.80; do, com., $8.50 to $9.26; bulls, choice, $10.25 to gll' do, med., $9 to $9.50; do, rough, $7.50 to ®8: butcher cows, c&mice. $10.15 to $11; do, good, $9 to $9.50; do, com., »i to »i.ou; stockers, $9 to $11; feedâ€" ers, $11 to $12.50; canners and cutâ€" ters, $5.25 to $6; milkers, good to cho‘ce, $100 to $160; do, com. and med., $65 to $75; springers, $90 to $160; iambs, per ewt., $18 to $19; spring lambs, each, $14 to $19; calves, good to choice, $18 to $22.50; sheep, $7 to $14; hogs, fed and wnte::s, $18.75; do, weighed off cars, $19; do, Toronto, April 6.â€"Choice heavy steers, $13.25 to $14; do, good, $12.50 to $13; butchers‘ cattle, choice, $12.50 to $13; do, good, $10.75 to $11; do, SiR AUCKLAND GEDDES +« eff@ns 4. The outbreak of influenza, which caused the postponement of the deâ€" parture of the Prince of Wales for Australia has had the effect of proâ€" ducing an interesting coincidence. The date of his departure from Portsâ€" mouth was the nineteenth anniverâ€" sary of the sailing of his parents on the Ophir for their memorable tour of the Dominions. Their majesties were then the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, for the visit took place shortly after the death of Queen Vicâ€" toria, and King Edward had not then given the title of Prince of Wales to his son. The Duke opened the first Parliament ¢f the Commonwealth of Australia while he was away, and upâ€" on his return the Prince, as he had then become, delivered his famous ‘"Wake Up England" speech _ at the Guildhall. Just before the Prince sailed he was formally summoned to the Privy Council by the King, though in the case of a member of the Royal Family no formal swearingâ€"4in ceremony takes place. This step would have been taken some time ago, had it not been for the war, and the Prince became a member of this Council at a rather more advanced age than has been cusâ€" tomary in the case of the Bovereign‘s wons in the past. Bo far no woman has ever been adâ€" mitted to the Privy Council, though how long it will remain a masculin®e preserve is vory problematical, since in the event of a woman M.P. becomâ€" ing a Cabinet Minister she would preâ€" sumably be sworn of the Privy Coun ell. Up to the present King George has been able to say that he has travelled more miles throughout the world than any other living Royal personage. But this record His Majesty is certain to lose within the next eightsen months, since, extensive as the King‘s tours have been, they will by that time have been eclipsed by the Prince of Wales. The Prince, by the way, will be the Arst member of our Royal family to set foot on the West Indian Islands as a formal visitor, and his welcome is, in consequence, likely to be more than ordinarily erthusiastic. . As it may :f’l%b $17.75; do, do, country points, Montreal, April 6.â€"Butcher steers, med., $11 to $11.75; com., $9 to $10.50; butcher heifers, med., $9 to $10.50; com., $7 to $9; butcher cows, med., $7.50 to ::.50; canners, $5.25 to $5.50; cutters, $5.50 to $6.50; butcher bulls, com., $7.50 to $9. Good vea!, $15 to $16.25; med., $10 to $15. Ewes, $11 to $12.50. Lambs, good, $16 to $17; com., $15 to $16. Bows, offâ€"car weights, $16, + now be taken for granted that the King‘s globeâ€"trotting is at an end, and since at least two other visits for the Prince of Wales are projected, he is likely to set up a miléage record that will remain unbeaten for many a day. Prince Arthur of Connaught was to have held an Investiture on behalf of LONDON -â€"lmperi-l ne!:.of Tmopem Navigation on Great Lakes Will Open About April 10 A despatch from London says:â€" Great Britain has begun to confer Imperial honors upon stenographers and telephone operators performing distinguished services during the war. ‘The latest list of honore contains the names of eight women typists created "members of the Order of the British Empire." Among them is Mrs. Alico Alison, Premier Lioyd George‘s confiâ€" dential secretary, who was the only woman witness to the delivery of the peace terms to Germany at Versailles. The other girls honored are emâ€" goyu of the Foreign, War, and Air inistries, inmcluding a War Office telephone operator, Daisy Finch, and Lily Nach, superintendent of the girl messengers of the Air Ministry. A despatch ftrom Chicago says:â€" Navigation on the Great Lakes will open about April 10th, the Weather Purcau A Letter From London O. B. E. the King at Manchester and Birmingâ€" ham, but owing to iliness he was unâ€" able to attend either of these, and his place was taken by Prince Henry, the third son of the King az* Queen, who thus made his first appea>â€"nce at a ceremony of this kind. He had the distinction of having represented the King at one of these local Investitures before his elder brothers, as neither the Prince of Wales nor Prince Albert has as yet appeared at such a funcâ€" tion in place of his Majesty. Prince Henry was twenty on March 31. He first of all went to school at 8t. Peter‘s Court, Broadstairs, then to Eton, and afterwards to the Royal Miliâ€" ary College, Sandbhurst. In July last he was gazetted a secornd Heutenant in the King‘s Royal Rifes, of which the King is Colonel4nâ€"Chief, The Prime Minister has now been in office continuousiy for fourteen years. He was mppointed President of the Board of Trade in December, 1905, and has since been Chancellor of the Exchequer, Minister of Muniâ€" tions, Secretary for War, and Prime Minister. It is a record without paralle! in modern times. Bir Robert Walpole, in the first half of the eighteenth cenâ€" tury, was Prime Minister and Chanâ€" cellor of the Exchequer for twentyâ€" one years, and Lord Herdwicke sat on the Woolsack for ninetsen years. For some years Bir William Sutherâ€" land, the new Junior Lord of the Treasury and Scottish Coalition Whip, has been Mr, Lioyd George‘s Parlia mentary Becretary and rightâ€"hand man. At a fair computation he has been worth £10,000 a year to the Prime Minister, although he is only just over forty. "I am waiting for Bonnie Mary of Argyl!," promptly replied 8ir William, & rejoinder which effectually captured the women‘s votes. His constitnency is Argylishire, and because he is unmarried he was once takon to task at a meeting there "Why," asked a woman, "are you not married ?" Our Colonial soldiers seem to have played a considerable part in the growth of superstitious belicfs in this country. One of the most persistent, which apparently was believed in imâ€" plicitly by many Australians as well as Canadians, is that the loss of a silver coin should be followed hy the news of a legacy. To meet a white donkey in the morning, the soldiers say, should be interpreted as the sign that a handsome present is on the way.â€"â€"Big Ben. A despatch from London saysiâ€" His attention being called in the House of Commons to the American naval estimates, Waliter Hume Long, First Lord of the Admiralty, entered into a detailed comparison. He showed that, at the current rate of exthange, when £23,000,000 for U.S. endâ€"ofâ€"theâ€"war expenditure was subâ€" the American estimates were $44,â€" 000,000 in excess of the British. Moreover, while the personnel of the British navy was being reduced, the American estimates provided for an dncrease &n personnel. The First Lord refrained from comment. tracted from the British estimates, Unknown Soldier name or where he belongs. All marks of identification are gone. He is beâ€" ing sent to Canada in the hopes that something may lead to his identificaâ€" tion. The Grampian docked on April A despatch from St. John, says:â€" A pathetic case came to light when military headquarters staff here reâ€" ceived a telegram from Ottawas not!â€" fying them to meet on the arrival of the steasmship Grampian an unknown Canadian soldier and to provide escort for him to the military sanatorium at Cobourg, Ont. ‘This soldier has been detained and wandering about Engâ€" land for a year and a half. He was shell shocked and does not know his geria, which has 2,500,000 acres of cork forests. The cholcest corks come from Aiâ€" Exceed Britain‘s ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO RUINOUS FOOD PRICES IN RVSSIA Long Lines of Citizens Wait« ing For Daily Rations. A despatch from London says;â€"An indication of conditions obtaining im Bolshevik Russia as the League of Nations investigating committoo will find them was contained in a review of the economic seituation in the ter» ritory controlled by the Soviet just printed in the London Times. The article, which was written by & staff correspondent, depicts long linee awaiting their food rations, with bread selling at 450 rubles a pound and butâ€" ter at 8,200 rubles a pound; of queues with the dead of the various cities, for even the cemeteries are "national» ized" and the dead lie for days awnit» ing interment. "Prices are very high, but the pro« fits are low," the writer of the article says. These, for example, are some of the prices prevailing last week : Rubles Butter ................ . 2,800 to 8,200 Gromts and meal ....... 600 to 700 Normally the ruble is worth b1% cents, gold, now It is worth about 414 cents. "In spite of these charges salaries are comparatively low, a typist getâ€" ing $,200 rublee a month for an cight hour day without rations. A hospitat nurse gets 2600 rubles a month and army retions for a tweive hour day, Army rations in Petrograd consist of; 4 lb. horseflesh. 1 lb. bread (fair quality) % }b. (about) groats and small quane tities of sugar and fats daily. "Bread on civiHiar rations contain®e about 50 per cent. of beans and 1046 per cent, bird seed (millet, canary an@ hemp), the reet beiug rye flour "Under the system of the division of the population into categories, person receiving rations on card A (the highest rate for heavy manual labor) gets i4 pounds of such bread dally; suger, horse meat and groat» are doled cut in »small quantities at interval®. "The working populationâ€"that is, every one except school children ang persons over 60 â€"work under truiy terrible conditions, and the workshops are cold. There is also very littie light, and no soap or weshing faclitâ€" tles. "It is proposed to reopen the achooilm in the epring. They have been closed since October, owing to the fue! ebortâ€" Upper Canads College, the oldest and most historic echool in Ontario, has launched an Endowment and Ex» tension Campaign for $1,500,000. It is proposed that $€00,000 shall be am Endowment, the interest of which shall be used to raise the salaries of the masters and to found & pension fund; $400,000 as an endowment for the provigion of forty entrance scholar» ships, each of the value of $500., tonm« able for three years; and $500,000 for improvements and additions to the present builldings. All the residential schools have been forced to raise their feen to meet the H. C. L., but the winner of one of these entrance scholarehipe should be able to live at Upper Cana da College at an erpense no groate® than it would cost his parents to keep him at home. Upper Canada College bhas at present about 450 boys, drawn from every province in the Domiuion, with the exception of P.K.I _ I!t has mbout 4,600 "Old Boys" living, and though usuaily spoken of as & Toronâ€" to Echool, counts among its "Old Boyw" age. Free dining rooms for the puplis have beep continued throughout the winter, but the food offerel ihere t of such bad quality that even the doge refuse to touch it except when slarv» ing. This state of things in the school dining rooms is on a par with other Soviet "reforms," where word and deed are so diametrically opporsed. "The closing of the markets in these conditions memns a terrible hardehip for the population,. Jt is not surpris» ing that the very rumor raised such & storm of protest that the authoritiee have not yet risked enforcing the orâ€" der. Only one market, indeed, ba» been closed, other markets being sub= jeted only to pericdical raids. At the clozing of the Alexendroveky market, which may be described as the Caleâ€" Aonian market of Petrograd, a free fight took place hetween troorn ang traders, when about twenty were killed and wounded." Mearst and in the Drury Government. Hoover in Ring for President, fornia that he would accept the Reâ€" publican no-hwq for President. the Hoovrer RepublMcan Olub of Cal And He Qet the One. A travreller, whose train had stop ped at a town fameus for its buns, beckoned to a small boy on the plat» m»“m‘:‘m“h" told ll‘lfltfl.hlh'lo bring him a bur ;:‘ hym for himselt with the other The boy soon returned. Calmly eat» ing a bun, he handed five cents to the astoniched traveller, remarking : Upper Canada College was only one left, boss."