The Clinton News Record, 1917-06-21, Page 3AYR RAIDERS KILL NEARLY 100
- IN 15 -MINUTE ATTACK ON LONDON
437 Injured in Most Seyere 'Raid Yet Made Over England, by Ger-
manDamagea of Milita r or Alreraf,t-•Nn xYr Naval Value.
three of the raiders and eonlliderable
damage was occasioned. One bomb
atruek u schoolhouse, killing a large
number of children and wounding
scores of others,
In his atatement Chancellor Bonar
Law said twelve to fifteen aeroplanes
crossed the coast of North Foreland
and proceeded across Essex to Lon-
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 Chancellor said .all the anti-
aircraft guns defending London were
brought into action, and that a large
number of aeroplanes went up In pur-
suit of the raiders. Several engage-
ments occurred in the air, but the
results at present are uncertain.
A ,lespatelt from London says; A
squadron of German aeroplanes raided
London shortly after eleven on Wed-
nesday morning and dropped thirteen
bombs, Tho casualties in the raid, it
is ofiiclally announced, numbered 97
killed and 437 wounded.
Killed.
Men .., ,,s 55
Women 16
Children . 26
Inj used.
Men . , , .223 •
Women . ,,.„ 122
94
Children .
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
business section was also visited by
CHRIS TANS ARE
FORCED TO FIGHT
Germans in Full Control of Tur-
key and Everyone is
Being Mobilized.
A despatch from Amsterdam says:
-An Armenian who has arrived in
Holland fron Constantinople gives the
Telegraaf particulars of the condi-
tions in the Turkish Empire. He de-
picts the administration as wholly
under German control. While the
Ministers themselves are Ottomans,
the vice -Ministers, who really manage
the Ministries, are Germans. Turkish.
inscriptions have been removed from
the offices of the Ministries and re-
' placed with notices in German.
The Germans have in short estab-
lished themselves as masters of Tur-
key. An espionage service under
German supervision is at woik in Con-
stantinope. Christian families espe-
cially are spied upon. Everyone is
being mobilized -men, children hnd
even one -eyed men and men without
fingers. Enver Pasha has summon-
ed to the colors all men under' 51, in -
chiding 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 the
Sultan the enactment of this law.
Christians in Turkey were dispensed
from military 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 addition-
al 530. Having thus paid £75 exemp-
tion, the Christians are now compelled
.to serve,
SUCCESS OF U. S.
LIBERTY LOAN
Expected To Go Well Beyond
the $2,000,000,000 Mark
A despatch from Washington says:
-The Liberty Loan campaign entered
the home stretch on Thursday with
every indication that the tremendbus
thirtieth day drive throughout the na-
tion wt iild result in getting well be-
yond the $2,000,000,000 goal.
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 thecampaign;
of redoubled efforts .by the many
agencies. at work for the loan's sue -
cess, of enthusiasm at its highest
pitch, of long waiting lines of sub-
scribers in thousands of banks in every
state o£ the Union.
PRESENT BREAD RATIONS
i7NTIL THE NEW HARVEST
A despatch from London says: -
Berlin despatches say the food depart-
ment has announced that since the
spring sowing had .terminated and a
better survery of the old hat•vest was
possible, and conferences concerning
the import of Rumanian grain had oc-
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.
120 CHILD VICTIMS
OF GERMAN AIRMEN.
A despatch .from London says: Sir
George Cave, Home Secretary, an-
nounced in the Rouse of Commons
that the latest reports of the e`asual-
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.
0
ROYAL FAMILY
LEAVE GREECE
Lam"
Pro -German Politicians and Mili-
tary Leaders Also Must Go.
A despatch from London says: -It
has been decided that all the members
of the Hellenic Royal family, except
the new King, will'leave Greece, ac-
companied by the most prominegt pro -
German politicians and military lead-
ers who form part of the entourage of
former king Constantine.
No indication has yet reached Lon-
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 natibnal 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 ex-
pressed by their representatives iii
Parliament.
Former King Constantine left
Athens on Thursday to embark on a
British warship. Constantine was ac-
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 secre-
tary.
AN OPPORTUNITY LOST.
Story Which Illustrates Some Curious
Russian Ideas:
Russian peasants have the kind of
credulity that arises from a vivid
imagination. If you tell one of the
daily life in Paris or in London -of the
tubes, the underground railways, the
telephones -he will tellyou 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 the0.English. Fairy
tales and miracles are his native
mental fare; facts concern him very
little.
The average peasant holds very
curious ideas on religion and the will
of the Almighty, a characteristic that
the author of Petrograd, Past and Pre-
sent illustrates by means of an amus-
$sso; rd $0
ing story. A droshky driver once .eeera, .26 to $9.75; cannersand cutters, 15.60 to $5.50; mincers, good
drove a gentleman toa certain bank.
His fare, who had money and valuable Wanderers Along Railroads Are No'to choice. 180 to $11.0; do.. corn. and 'flea, each, $40 to $00; springers, 586
to $plot light elves, 58,60 to $5.60;
papers with him, pushed them under Longer to be Seen. sheep. heavy, $7 to $s; yearlings, $11,50
the cushions for safety ,while he did g 1 to $12.60; calves, good to choice, $1.1 to
his business; but on returning he What no amount of legislation and'115; spring lambs, each, 160 to 155o:
From The Middle West
BETWEEN ONTARIO AND BIM
TISH COLUMBIA,
Items From Provinces Where Many
Ontario Boys,and Girls Aro
Living,.
The Province of Alberta 49 has
towns.
Alberta telephone employes are on
strike in Edmonton, .
it
A Big Ranchers'Fair and Livestock
Show will be held in Moose Jaw in
July,
Winnipeg Public Library now has
75 books printed for the use of the
blind.
Two Calgaryn officers, home o
leave, are Capt. D. B. Niblock and
Lieut. A. C. Landale.
The only woman nominated in the
Alberta election contest was Mrs Mc-
Kinney, of Claresholm.
Three bread firms in Moose Jaw
have amalgamated to be known as
the Moose Jaw Bread Company.
The buildings and storage tanks of
the Western 011 Company , at Moose
Jaw have been destroyed by fire to
the extent of $6,000.
During the month of May nearly
3,000 children were vaccinated in the
City of Winnipeg. The average was
more than 125 a day.
The Manitoba Board of. Health plan
to have all abattoirs and slaughter
houses in the province'duly licensed
and under inspection by July 1st.
A Saskatchewan farmer, sixty years
of ago, had his first ride onsaisrailway
train the other day when he travelled
from Lebret, on the Grand Trunk Pa-
cific, to Regina.
Capt. Chas. P. McCallum, of Cal-
gary, who went away with the first
contingent and who has been promoted
on the field, is mentioned in de-
spatches for conspicuous bravery.
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,
During the•flrst year under prohibi-
tion, only fifty eommitments'have been
made to the Manitoba Jail at Brandon,
from the western judicial district, as
coo •red with 25D for the preceding
y . 'The provincial jail now holds
nly sevenvan or eight prisoners
while
in former times from 40 to 50,
prison-
ers were confined in the building.
BRITISH CAPTURE
Markets of the World FROM SUNSET COAST
Breadstlitf8
!j'erdnto, J505 3t - Manlleha wheat ---
No 1 Northern, $2,78; No, 2 .do„ 02.75,
notnlnal, trade Bay ports.
Ma'nitobl oats -No official quotations,
norufnit lotrmalt'PgrO to„3 Y01101', $1438:
Ontario oats --No oI't1ehui quotations.
Ontario wheat --No, 2 Winter, nor Aar
lot, $2,60 to 02,65; 00„ No, 8, $2.5$ to
52,t)8, acoordipg to ,Freights outside,
Peas --No 2. nominal, aeo0rding to
freights oueside.
Barley-,54alting, nominal, ae0ording
to freights outside,
Rye -No. 2, $2.00, nominitraQoording
to freights outside,
Manitoba flour-lrirst patents, in jute
bags, 513:80; second patents, in Jute
bags, 513.30; str..)ng bakers', In Jute
bags, 112,50 Toronto,
Ontario , fiour-Winter, according to
amorontople, , $11.o5.0mpt to ohlirrn$11,0e0,nt,1n bags, track
Tppr
Mill1'eed•--Car lots, delivered Montreal
freights, bags included -Bran per ten,
593; shorts, per ton, 040; middlings, per
ton 544; good feed :jour, per bag, 52,50
to $2.90,
Hay -Extra No. 2, per ton, $13.00 to
$13.50; mixed, Per ton, 59 to $11.50,
track 'Toronto,
Straw -Car lots, per ton, $9, track
Toronto.
Country trodnoe-Wholesale
Butter -Creamery, solids, per ib., 965
to 37o; prints, per lit, 37 to 5780; dairy,
per 1b., 51 to 320,
f0gga-Peredoz., 34 to 350:
tradeWho
0at' therfolioware inglip ices:ng to ,' retail
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 38 to 3sc;'
.creamery prints, 40 to 41o; solids, 40e,
Eggs -New -laid, in cartons, 42e; out
of cartons, 40e.
Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, 600;
fowl 24 to 25o; squabs, per dos„ $4,00
to $4.60; turkeys, 25 to 10.04
Live poultry -Spring chickens, ib., 40
to 46e;. hens, lb., 22 to 260,
0;
triplets, 242c; old, large, 293e; twins,
300; triplets 308c.
Honey -Comb ---Extra fine and heavy'
weight, per doz., $2,75; select, 52.60 to
$2.75; No. 2, 02 to 52.25.
Maple syrup -imperial gallon, $1.76.
Potatoes -On track Ontario, per bag,
$4.25; Atbertas, per bag, $4.00; P.IlI,
reds, bag, 54,00.
Beans -Imported, hand-picked,59.00 to
59.60 per bush: Limas, per lb.!'10 to 20c,
Provisions -Wholesale
Smoked meats -Hams, medium, 3D to
810 do., heavy, 26 to 270; coolced, 41 to
42c; rolls, 27 to 28c; breakfast bacon,
93 to 36o; backs, plain, 36 to 37c; bone-
less, 89 to 40c,
'Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 2740; tubs,
275o; . palls, 28e; compound, tierces,
210o; tubs, 2130; pails, 22o.
CUred meats -Long clear bacon, 25 to
255c per lb: clear bellies, 24 to 25e.
Montreal Markets
Montreal, June 19 -Oats -Canadian
Western. No, 2, 7850; do., No. 3, 770;
extra No. 1 feed, 77c. Barley -Man.
.feed, 51,20. Flour -Man. Spring wheat
patents, firsts, 513.90; do., seconds,
$13.40; strong bakers', 511,20; Winter
rents,• chse, 513.75; straight rollers,
to 513,30; do., bags; 50.26 to 56.40.
dl
led oats -Barrels, 52.00; bags, 90 lbs„
$4.30: Bran, 584. Shorts, $40. Midd-
lings, $42 to $44. Mouillle, .546 to 551.
IiaY-No, 2, Per top, car lots, 513 to
513.50. Cheese -Finest westerns: 2120;
finest easterns, 2110, Butter-Cholcest
creamery, 335 to 39e; seconds, 375 to
880. l6gge-Selected, 40o; No. 1 stock,
37c; No. 2 stock, 34 to 36c. Potatoes--•
Per bag, car lots, $4_25 to 54,50.
Winnipeg Grain
Winnipeg, Juno 19 -Cash quotations -
Wheat -No. 1 Northern. $2,62; No. 2
FORT AT RED SEA (Northern, 8;.69; No. 3 Northern, $2,66;
No• 4, ,35, ate 6, , 2 0 No. 6. 81No.
Teed, $1.96. Oats -No. 2 C.W., 8980; No.
T I8 C.w., 6780; extra No. 1 feed, 6750; No.
1 Reed, 6650; No. 2 feed, 0350. Barley-
N$o. 5, $1.30; No, 4, 51.15;-' rejected,
Turks Driven Back in Advance $2 °« 140. 2 C.W., 52.530; xo s'cw;
From Gulf of Aden. 2.09.
A `despatch from London says: -
Fort Saliff, on the east shore of the
United States Markets
Minneapolis, June 19 -Wheat -July,
$266• September, 31.962; cash, No. 1
Red Sea, has been captured by British hard,' $a,2o .to $s:26; •No. 1 Norther
warships, it was officially announced $.10 to 53.18; No. 2 Northern, 53.00 to
Thursday evening.
Fort Saliff 'is' on Kamaran Bay, in
Yemen province, south-western Ara-
bia. Large rock salt works are locat-
.10. Corn -Nb. 3 yellow, $1.560 to
$1.684. Oats-No.8 white, 56 to DSc.
Flour -Fancy patens, 516.60; first clears,
$18.50; others unchanged. Brun, $20,00
to 127.00. t,
Duluth, June >.9 -Wheat -No. 1 hard,
ed there. ,,..01, nominal; No. 1 Northern, 53.00,
nominal; No. 2 Northern, $2.35, nominal.
The captured fort lies about 175 July, 52.63, nominal. Llusred-$3,14
miles north of • the Gulf of Aden. • A Live stook Markets
force of Turks to the north of Aden -
October, $2.90.
has been long in the way of the British Toronto, June 18 --Choles heavy steers,
in attempts they have made to ad- to 511.26; $butchers' cattle `cholaae:0100 0
vanes from that city. The purpose to $11.26; do., good, 510.66 to $10,85; do„
of the seizure of Fort Saliff may be in 00 58 8 '; 5butoers3.-0b1IIs; ehatse,n510 to
facilitation of a movement to work in 530,60; 00., good bulls, 10.25 to 59:5g!
behind this force and capture or dis- do medium bulls, 08 to $8.60; do., ro
bulls, 55 to 56.10; butchers'' cows, chc
$10 to $10.26; do., good, $9 to $9,50;
medium, 53 to $9,60; stockers, $7.5
perse it,
WAR ELIMINATES RY. HOBO.
lambs, cholc0, 516 to 516; d0„ medium,
no number of Warning signs could ac- 511; hogs, fed and watered, 516.60; 00„
complish in years has been accom- walghed oit cars, 515,73; do., f,o.b„
fished in a few brief weeks bythe 014,76.
p Montreal, June 19 -Sheep, 55.50 to
entry of the United States into the 510: Yearling lambs, 511.50 to $12;
spring lambs, 07 to $10; calves, 57 to
world war -the railroad hobo has $12; select hogs, $16.76 to $16.26,
magically disappeared, says the Oak•
-
land Tribune. No more are his break-
magically
I SVonder,
fast fires to be seen burning under i "When stars go out, I wonder where
her (ao 7 -
found to his dismay that the man had
driven off, taking with him the pert -
folio, which contained among other
things notes to the value of several
thousand rubles: •
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
clrivers in Petrograd to report them-
selves. At last, they found the miss-
ing one and charged him with the
theft; but the poor fellow was
astounded, and stoutly denied having tenanted by unshaven and ragged And what the quiet, shiny fishes
taken either the money or the papers. specimens of humanity. know?"
The police searched the eab, and there, The disappearance of the hobo from Front dawn to eve, but' most when
sure enough, was the missing portfolio the railroads was brought about by lights are low
with its contents intact. the stationing of soldier guards at all And sunset ray and vapor weave
The owner was overjoyed and.,gave approaches to bridges, tunnels and • their spell -
the man a handeome reward. But
the droshky driver was dumfounded
and could not understand the reason
for hi's patron's generosity. When,
at last, he learned that the little
leather book had contained a small
fortune, his sorrow and disappoint-
ment knew no bounds. He could not
get oven his astonishment, and finally
hanged himself in disgust •at the
thought that God had sent him all that
money and he had not taken its
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A Popular Number.
bridges or beneath overhanging
branches in the creek beds beside the
track. There are no more "hang-outs"
at the entrances' to tunnels, and the
"side door Pullmans" are no longer
I wonder where the flower's get
. their smell ?
I
wonder what the talking sgiiilrels
Numberless people think they are
No. 1. •
sA1 TOM,PANrvs HUBBY Isou•r IN THE. ..
BACK "ARp WHY Pold'T YoU GIVn »IM A
QUAR'reR Aat. GET HIM -ro Harp You
LIFT THAT pox otrr OF `030. BAs3MtNT,
llikeZ A 60D FIUNCFp,
01-1. Pa 714AT s-•�
g130 leo
terminals. Any person walking,on a
railroad right of way these days must
have means to prove instantly that
he is an individual above suspicion.
The hobo carries no bank hook, call-
ing cards, business corresponcience or
other papers to prove his respectabil-
ity.
With the 111010ase of ammunition
trains and the movement of troops resigned, signed,
to mobilization camps the strictest of Study the flight of swallows 011 the
vigilance will be exercised by the breeze,
military authorities, and it will he As lips, half open, murmur to the
dangerous for ally nnautho'ized person air"
to venture upon a railroad right of The tremendous "I wonder" of man-
kind.
-Herman Hegedo•n, in the Outlook,
"I wonder how the small birds fly
so well
And why the winds that blow the
birds won't blow
Me too up through the far green tops
of trees?"
All day "I wonder" -faintly as a
prayer- -
"I wonder," and her deep, eyes, mi -
way except at such crossings as. are
recognized 01.8 lrablic highways,
\,
'PANSY, Wl4ei2n Is
TNAT . Al A N <i=
MOORS !_j-"-
NoU'tl PIrJD'141s LAZY
BoN E.6 on- IN Dl YARD
UNng14 WT 1315`fRE#
Cts
tOtestat
WHAT FIXE WT;.STl1RN •PEOPILB
AGE DOING..
Brogresp of the Great Week Vet
lee a Few Pointed
Paragraphs.
The ooliichans, which were running
in large numbers a short time ago,
aro only being caught in small num-
bers -snow. •
A scarcity of logs has resulted in
keeping about 25 per cent. of the
lumber and shingle mills in British
Columbia idle,
Statistics recently issued by the
port warden of Seattle indicate that
Vaneouver's foreign trade is largely
in exeese'of that of Seattle,
Another Vancouver boy, Albert J.
Stevens, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
T, Stevens, was killed in the heavy
fighting around Vimy Ridge,
The seal menace' on the Eraser
River, B.C., was effectually put an
end to by the explosion of mines
which blew the herd of 200 into
atoms.
The Vancouver police department
has sent out some. 600 notices to
cigar dealers
g and others to the effect
that dice shaking must be discon-
tinued.
The formation of a new shipbuild-
ing company for Victoria, capitalized
for initial purposes at $500,000, "was
announced at a meeting of the Board
of Trade.
Following a paralytic stroke, Si-
mon Leiser, one of the old-timers of
British Columbia, died • the resi-
dence of his daughter, Mrs. Milton
Oppenheimer, 'Vancouver.
Harbor facilities on the south
shores of Burrard'Inlet have extend-
ed until the docks cover an area of
1,384,845 square feet and the wharves
extend for over 21,6 miles.
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.
• A band of nearly 200 Russians,
accompanied .in many instances• by the
members of their families, have left
Vancouver en route totheir native
land, after years of exile in the
United States.
The Swedish Vice -Consul at Van-
couver is now in charge of the
Austro-Hungarian affairs formerly in
charge of the United States Consul,
and he is also looking after the inter-
ests of Turks in this province.
THE SPELL OF THE YUKON.
Beautiful Scenery nod Interesting
Inhabitants Offsets Rough Life.
For those who are strong and do not
mind coarse food, roughnecks and
rough treatment, when counterbalanc-
ed by beautiful scenery and interest-
ing men a voyage upon the river
Yukon is an experience not to be re-
gretted.
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 utiles or more, outmeandering the
Meander river in its coils and twists,
near one point , passing the same
hill five times -though a wilderness
almost pathless, which the greater
part of the way has remained un-
changed since the discovery of
America.
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 wood -chopper who supplies
the steamers with fuel, and a few min-
ing camps, now almost empty, and
ot8ing their present limited existence
principally to the fur trade.
One of these, the town c2 Circle, was
so named because it was erroneously
thought to be upon the Arctic circle;
which parallel, as has been since dis-
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 sign -board on the shore. Circle
was once the largest tent -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.
Worth While,
Here are a few things that Marshall
Field considered worth remembering;
The Value of Time.
The Success of Perseverance.
The Pleasure of Wcrkiing,
The Dignity of Simplicity.
The Worth of Character.
The Po\ver of Kindness,
The Obligation of Duty,
The Wjsdom of Economy.
The V it a6 of Patience,
The Imgrovement of Talent. '.
Tisa Joy' of Originating.
Use radishes once in a while as a
relish, and the family will appreciate
it,
iblat.ta
it Y 114a17E }IoNRY, WAKE up!!
Do `IOU WANT 'TO
EARN A g0AiirER,?
GERMAN TUNNEL
STRUCK BY SHELL
French Half -Ton Projectile I-lit0
Mark Ten Miles Distant.
A despatch from Lon lion says:.
This story of modern warfare is relat-
ed by an official authority who has
been on the front On Champagne:
"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 lo-
cated and the operator of a French 15 -
inch gun ten miles away was told to
put a shell in the entrance.:
"The gun started firing thousand
poundshells and the infantry was or-
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, block-
ading the exist and wrecking the
transverse corridors. The French ad-
vanced and took several hundreds of
prisoners without suffering a loss.
"Two months ago a French attack
on Moronvillers failed because .this
impregnable tunnel could not be cap-
tured."
OUR 'WAR CHARGERS.
British Army Horses Receive Every
Care in Hospitals.
A recent observer of the British
methods of training horses for use in
the army noticed that at the close of
each day's drill there came, following
the order to dismount, another order
that is without parallel in any other
army. It was apparently a single
mysterious word:
"Muchyerosses 1" •
The fact that each rider proceeded
to stroke, pat or pet his charger, per-
functorily or affectionately, as the case
might be, rendered the interpretation
clear. The command meant, "Make
much of your horses."
The English are a nation of horse
lovers, and in the English army horses
are as well cared for, bothfrom true
humane feeling and motives of econ-
omy, as the cruel wastage of war will
permit. They are 'overworked only
when they must be, are •well fed and
often "muched"; and there are horse
hospitals for the wounded. But many
poor, faithful creatures are sacrificed.
A graphic writer, Mr, R. B, Cun-
ninghame Graham, has described, with
much feeling, the last free run and
feed of one of the many troops of
horses sent from Uruguay to the bat-
tle front. There were five hundred
of them, including two beautiful bright
bays with white legs and nose, which
were known as the twins.
"Whenever neither of them stopped
to eat, its companion would turn and
neigh. On the instant the other
would raise its head and gallop up.
Arena, our head man, riding beside
me, wheeled round on his horse so sud-
denly that they stood poised like an
equestrian statue, looked at the twins
and remarked:
"'Patron, if they have got to die in
the great war, I hope one shell will
kill them both.'
"The horses smelled the water at the
bottom of the hill and the whole five
hundred broke into a gallop, with
manes flying and tails raised high,
and we raced madly by their side un-
til within a hundred yards of the great
lake. They rushed into the water
and drank greedily, while the setting
sun fell upon their many -colored backs
and gave the whole herd the look of a
vast tulip field.
"After the herd had drunk and had
scattered in the lush pasture to feed
tranquilly, one of the herdsmen apos-
trophized them sorrowfully:
" Eat well; there is no grass like
that of La Pileta where you go, aEross
the sea. The grass in Europe' must
all smell of blood.'" '
To My Soldier at War.
Do you know, you soldier away at the
war,
What my hands are doing to -night?
They are knitting a sock that you are
to wear
When you're marching off to the
fight.
Do.you know, you soldier away at the
war,
What my lips nre doing to -night?
They are breathing a prayer that you
may conte back
With those who will win for the
Right.
Do yell know, you soldier away at the
war, -
What my heart is doing to -night?
It is singing for joy that you are so
brave,
My chivalrous, true -hearted knight.
So God keep you safe, dear soldier at
war,
'For my sake and England's, to-
' ' night;
The way may be dark, the struggle
be long,
But the morning of Peace will be
bright.
-Dorothy 11, Royle.
usasgstssese
ENGLAND BEARING
HUGE TAX BURDENS
BUT BUSINESS IS THRIVING Dai
SPITE THIS FACT,
Revenue For Last Fiscal 'Yat
Reaches Stupendous Total of
$2,500,000,000,
In 1897 the United Kingdom's re.
venue was roughly $550,000,000, while
for the year 1910-11 it nearly doubled
this figure. The war has brought as
expansion of the public revenue such
ea no financial authority could leave
imagined possible. For the year 1912-
18 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 $1,500,000,000, and fox
the year ended March 10, 1917, it
reached the stupendous total of $2;
500,000,000.
Revenue From Taxation.
It must be understood that this $2,-
500,000,000 was the revenue coming
from taxation, in one form or another,
The receipts from taxation as thus
stated aro very different from the to-.
tal receipts of the British Govern.
ment for the year ended March, 1917,
During that year from taxation and
from loans of all sorts the Govern.
Inent's receipts were approximately
$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 de.
monstrating a capacity to do busi•
ness under distressing circumstances;
to digup revenues, to carry burdens
such as no fiscal authority on earth
would have suspected could be die.
played under such a stress.
Last 'year's revenue, aside from
loans, was nearly $350,000,000 mor:
than the Chancellor of the Exchequer
had estimated in the preparation of
his budget.
Bigger Burdens Faced.
In preparing the new budget this
year the ,Chancellor has been guided
by what now seems a reasonable pre-
sumption that the feverishand unna•
tural prosperity of war times will con.
Untie, 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 confident expectation
that they will be met.
3,000,000 Persons Saving.
In the first two months of this yeas
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
associations between 2,000,000 and
3,000,000 members, nearly all of them
people who had not previously at-
tempted systematically to save and
who have been induced to do so by the
system of collective savings. The sav-
ings associations undertake to aggre-
gate together the small amounts
brought in by their members and to
invest them in a lump. Children in
the schools, pensioners, tradesmen, la-
borers, artisans, waiters, farm work-
ers; in fact, every class of people 15
represented among these millions who
are now learning, and learning to en-
joy, the art of saving.
Basis of Prosperity.
The basis of the war time prosper-
ity is the foreign trade of the coun-
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 for-
eign trade expansion and manufactur-
ing development such as she has not
known before. Tho examples of Ger-
many with her system of cartels and
of the great American trusts are be-
ing studied.
British industrial and commercial
methods are even now being moderniz•
ed and liberalized to an 'extent .that
would not have been possible in se
short a time but for the stress of war
conditions. The banks in particular,
being under the influence of a Gov-
ernment determined to keep business
going on just as extensively as pos-
sible, give valuable assistance and
learn a great deal about the possibili-
ties of widening their credits and help-
ing enterprise.
Future Outlook.
The old conservatism which so fre-
quently made it easy for competitors
to take business away from England
is wearing off at an amazing rate. The
new England that will emerge from
the>war will be more nearly self-sus-
taining andself-containing than any
England of modern times. And she
will meed to be, for she will have on
her hands the business of reinstating
herself in the investment markets of
the world, the reconstruction of hex
merchant marine, the continued fin-
ancing of the huge debt that will hang
over her, the reorganization of het '
educational system at a great cost,
the provision of homes and occupa-
tions for millions who will be released
from the army and from the special-
ized industries created for war service,
But England to -clay feels more confi-
dent in her capacity to handle the
task than she diel in those early stages
of the war when nobody remotely
dreamed that the task would be. se
Brent es 50 has proved.
RUSS TO PUNISH.
FURTHER DEFECTIONS.
A despatch from Petrograd says:
The Provisional Government has is-
sued a decree declaring. 'alt acts of
military disorder to be insubordina-
ttion, including refusal to fight, and
also incitement to fight against the
Government, Such acts, says the de-
cree, are punishable by long sentences
to servitude in the penitentiary and
the deprivation of rights 1;o property,
and also the right to reeolve land un-
der the corning land rediotributiom.
Meteecyeles are used extensively by
mail carriers in the rural districts of
l''ngland,