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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1917-12-13, Page 3LU eseseVerstelt,:e-e,..ser-ssv s Th Disaster is the Most Awful Catastrophe Which Es Befallen My City in the Work!. Borrowing Details of the Explosion Which Wieeked the Northern Section of the City and Caused Death and Injurkof Thou- sands—Collision in the Harbor Between French Munitions ShiP Mont Blanc and Belgian Relief Stemmer, The Imo. • ay hundreds of peoplo are dead walks and thrown flat into the etreets, and thousands are injured and,.home- In the down -town offices, just begins less because of 41 frightful explosion ning to hum with the usual day's ac - and the fire which ?allowed it on tIvities, clerks and heads alike cowee- aday of last week. • All the ecl under the shower of falling glass Thur and plater which fell about them. trellis) north end of the city is devast- The collision was a terrifict one, the ated. The city is cut off from tele- munition boat being pierced on the graphic communication with the port side almost to the engine - rem. The relief vessel, which _was The disaster was caused primaelly prectipallyg uninjured, kept going aheadwith the wounded craft, and svhen the fire was seen to break aboard her; backed away, and the crew started to abandon her, The Mont Blanc drifted away, a burning wreck while the relief boat beached near Tuft's Cove on the Dart- mouth side of the harbor. .Seventeen minutes after the collision the explo- sion occurred. Under the force of the . by. the - Belgian relief steamers the IMO, going out and a French munition ' steamer, the Mount Blanc, entering • the -harbor coming into collision. Then the munition .ship took five and the crew left her. They landed on the -Botirtmouth shore, end soon after .the ship blow up, with 6,000 tons of high explosives, The Belgian' ship was beached on the shore of the har- bor opposite Halifax. Fragments of seplosioz, houses crumpled like decks the ship and hee ammunition were of cards, while the unfortunate reel - scattered all over the northern part of dents were swept to death in the de - the city, and the violence of the ex- isris. • plosion wrecked all the buildings in 'it t... main darnage•was done in the that part of the city. "The most awful catastrophe. which has befallen any city in the world." Such is the opinionsof all officers and men 'who have returned from the front who have been in the thick of the fighting since Canadians went into ac- tion. And they •ate right. The men fecim the trenches, the men behind the trenohes or in the roar, and the man occurred.the streets were filled with as Africville, to Bedford Basin, and I -Lard-Pure lard, tiotTe% ..S6 to 29c, tubs, 284 to 294e; palls. 29 to Mc: a terres-stricken mob of peciple, all covers about two square. miles. who has been through the times of compound, tierces, 24 to 242c• tubs, 34k 'distress in London and the southeast laying to make their way as best The buildings which were not de- to 24do; palls, 240 to 244e, they might to the outskirts in order stroyed by the explosion were laid coast, when Zeppelins and enemy air- .. planes bombed the CAPital of the to get out of the range of what they waste by the fire that followed. thought to be a German raid. Thousands Homeless Empire and the Coastal towns, they all know that they never met with such dire casualties ns befell the city of Halifax on Thursday of last week. CONIPILTSION OVER. WHISTLES BLAMED Pilot; Frank Meckle, who was on the munition ship, ,deelares s that the accident was due to a /confusion of whistles, sounded b'y the Belgian Rellersteamer, in addition to her cargo of muni- tions, the Mont Blanc carried a deckload of benzine, and this caught flize, following the explo- sion, -- -The Captain of the Mont islano ordered" his crew to take to the boats. The men hastily left the ship in two boats and sowed for the Halifax side of the harbor, which they reached in safety, The men ran for refuge, es they felt that an explosion was Inevit- able. Tswenty minutes later the explosion occurred, and the men ware hurled flat on the ground. Marketsthe,World Toronto: Deo, • :I -Manitoba wheat - No, .1 Northern, $3:0303 100, 2 do., 22,20d; Na: 3 ,10.. $2.170; No: 4 wheat, 12.303, 1;1 store Fort William, intruding 2de tar, 310.3111olnt oats -No, 2 0,1'1f., 835Ol• No, 3 C1,W, 30301 No, A eXire. feed, 802c: No, 1 feed:Idle, 11: sten Nort American corn -No. Yellow. nominal, Ontario oate--No. 2 white, 76 to 700, nominal; No, 3, do„ 74 to 750, nominal, according to freiNtts utside: Ontat•lo wboat-New, No, 2 'Winter, 22.22; basis qn steep, Inantsoas J?eas--No, 2,13.70 in 28,80, (Loa/Nine' to freights Outside. $1.20 to $1,24, at - cording to freights outside. Buckwheat -21.45 to $1,20, according to freights outside, Ti•Ye - No. 2, 51.70, am:Lulling 10 frelghts Outside, Manitoba gour-First nate»ts, In jute bags, $11.50: 2ne, do,, 21.11 strong bak- ers'. do„ $19:90,,croroul.0. (mosso lieut.-Winter, ascot:dies to eameie, $0.95, in bags, Montreal; 20.75. Toronto; $2,70 Mak, seaboard, prompt Shipment, 111111fOod-Car lots, deli vered'Ilentreal freights, bags ineltiderl-Bran, per tom: ss7; shorts, do,. 242; middlings, do„ 547 to $48; good reed :flour, per bag, 12.25, nra,v-No. 1,'`now, siei• too, 010 14 $17: mixed, Ito, 213 to $15, track 'fiorento., Straw -Car lots, 'pet' Von, $9 to 20.50; track Toronto. :rem:is se:, csassessasseseeesseIsosigcclaSPISM."' SISIeSS(.1,-sic2S1sessAV Sss ik ••••., '•••%:,:d:e0;301;44A• The 7,000 ton steamer Passenger shown in the'picture was launched Nov. 29 by the Canadian Vickers Company at Montreal. The Porsanger is the largest ocean-going vessel constr acted in Canada. Inset is a portrai of Me. P. L. Miller, manager of the Canadian Vickers Co. t to Cie; prints: perlb, 48 to 43de; dairy, Quarry Bank, a mining townshi • coniitsy Prodatoe‘-Wholesale • E 0 N phuaispobseeesn. taken aver for War Offic Putter -Creamery, Solids, per lb, 425 LI 6.31'101 E GLrulay Per 10, to 08e, Eggs -Fresh gathered eggs, 47 to 48e, . of Staffordshire, is threatened with a growers and eountrY Shin:101'S 51,80 to "WS Potatoes - 'Wholesalers aro Paying /31' MAIL ABOOT JOHN coal falnine. $1,06 for first-class stock, f.o.b., outside • BULL AND HIS PEOPLE The citizens of Berniondsey object to church bells being' rung as. a warn- ing of air. raids. Policeman W. G. Beaumont was awarded £7 at Bow street for stop- ping a runaway horse. All currants and sultanas bound for Great Britain. have been requisis tioned by Lord Rhondda. Twickenham has now five horse - butcheries, owing to the influx of Bel- gians to that district. po n 0.. Wholesalers aro Selling to the .retall trade at the following prices:-, explosion, found that all his family Cheese -New, large, 23 to 2350; twins, 231 10 OSlo; ett•00:12y64.theese, 250 to 25e; consisting of his wife and four ehil, dren, had perished. Before him on Butter-Fresh.dalry, choice, 40 to 4101 the roadway were the mangled re, grakery prints, 45 to sac; scales, 44 to mains of his little two -Year-old child, Aliggs-New Mid, in cartons, 60 to 62e; select storage, who had met death while playing on NO. 1 540rago• 42 to 43c; 46 to 470,. the roadside. Dressed poultry --Spring chickens, 27 Many of those composing he crews IA attals.,1W• L21.1•033e;3081M;5•1101(311011,, ••••• Occurrences in the Lund That Reigns Supreme in the Commer- cial World. Lieutenant H. M. Williams and LieutenantsCiiloriel A, Finlay have been appointed deputy-heutenants of of ships irt the harbor were killed and Spring, 23 to 260; geese, 20 to 225. injured. The damage alone; the water Live poultry -Turkeys, 250; Spring Buckinghamshire. chickens, lb., 20e; hens, 15 to 20e; Owing to the scarcity of red paint, front is very eprious. ducks, Sm•ing, 20 to 220,, geese, 180, ; 12 oz., $3; No. 2, $2,40 to 02.50. ez., the bonnets and parts of the 'bodies of London motet. omnibuses are being The munition ship, after the crew ,3318"Y`Cw"D-43th'n "0' 10 left her; veered in towards the,,Hali- ;trained, tins, 2d's and 5's, 19 to 105c • fax side of the harbor, and ,the city pelilb; 1064 181 t0 le; cr't14,118dLo 1850. painted brown. received the full force of the explo- $s.srg-si:altign'ed.'aanci-Vciced,1111.1S`'d 0n the invitation of the Lord Mayor son. to $V75 per bush; Limas, per lb., 17 to of Liverpool, Mr. Asquith delivered an 1700,address 'on "War Aims" in that city north end of the city, known as Rich- A part of the town of Dartmouth is Ptatoes, on I:rack-Ontario. bag, 52,10 mond, which was opposite the point also in ruins. Co $2.25; Delawares, bag, $2,35 to 22.50. recently, of the vessels' collision. Here the Nearly all the buildings in the dock- --- A memorial in Cornish granite has damage was so extensive as to be to- yard are in ruins. Provisions -Wholesale been dedicated in a cemetery in Kent to the I Smoked meats-ETams, medium, 30 to 42 • rolls 27 Co 28e• breolcfast bacon OeCtal•i't Ndleintim1951oef. the explosion which tally beyond the field of description. Practically all the north end °Ube .000; do. heavy, 26 to 27e;.. 000ked, 41 lo city has beenlaid Waste. The destruction extends from North street railway station, as fee north Street after street is in run, and flames swept over the district. Five minutes atter the -.explosion .32 to 42c; backs, plain, 40 to 41c; bone- There is very little sale of second - less, 43 to 44c. Cured meats -Long• _clear bacon, 275 hand bicycles in London, as boys are to 2Sc lb; clear bellies, -'26d to 27e. earning so much money that they can afford to.bufnew ones - The Barnet and Finchley councils have protested against the inadequate lighting of railway carriages when Argnirtni. Der, 1.1—ORIS—C1:1118.0in passing through tunnels. • 'Western, isio, 3, 00ie; extra No. 1 feed, One; lova] while, Stie; No. 0, clo., In one week last summer the chil- Women rushed in terror-stricken .. Thousands of persons' are rendered mobs through the streets, many of homeless. The Academy of Music and them with' children .clasped to their many ether public buildings have been At Mee o'cloek.on Thursday. of last breasts. In their eyes was a look of thrown open to house the homelese, week the city was enjoying its usual terror as they struggled ins mobs Five hundredynts. have been erects 'No. 2,, per ton, Car lots, 215.50. Cheese have asked their secretaey, T. E. Nay-. - . period of ealm and the streets were through the streets. with. blood -stain- ed on the Com.mon and these will beliTanelfu • i jelg,tiliF&A`1.,,,„,'471' lor, to be a candidate at the next Lon crowded with people' wending their 'ed faces and endeavored to get any- occupied by the troops,'who have IsSse; seconds, 42 to 424c. Eggs-FreSh. don County Council election. s0tIoei0,, to lo 44e.itele; taNd'o.4t 1c100.,45305; to1NO3.5e1. Hammers] 1 Council where from, the falling masonry and nitl has ' been crumbling walls. - Dressed hogs -Abattoir -killed, $25 to asked bY the Local Government for 84e. Flour -Manitoba. Spring wheat dren attending the schools in the Hen - patents. firsts, $11; do., seconds, $11.10; strong bakers', $1a00; straight rollers, ley .district gathered 2.240 pounds of bags, $5.20 to $5.35. mmoB ie -ran, blackberries fOr the army and navy. 5*0 LO • im $65 t 2f6 Flay- The London Society of Compositors 235 to $3_7; shorts, 240 to $42; middlings, way to work, little thinking of that which in a few minutes was to befall therm 'Suddenly, like bolt from the blue, there came an explosion. From orie end Of the city to the other glass fell, and people were lifted •from the side - given up their barracks to house the homeless, women and children. 'TemporarY hospitals and Morgues have been opened in the school houses in the western section of the city. ,The Among the hundreds who were kill- -Heavy Canada. short moss, barrels, 35 $25.50; do., country, $24 Lo 524,00. Pork sanction to grant £200 to the Hom- ed by the explosion was one particul- to .is pieces, 352 to 253; Canada short mersmith Volunteer Regiment. go. imm.rtyni;74,„„t;. 5',`",4011.,,,,,,u0 4,f, The Holborn Borough Council have. 1110 ltd. 25 to 20e; de.. pure, wood liens, granted an honorarium of 100 guineas 20 lbs net, 270 to 28e. each to the town clerk and his deputy for services to the local tribunal, wintitneg"terain Winnipeg. Dec. 11 --Cash prices:- The Flintshire County 9ouncil are Onts--N 2 (.W., ease; No. 0 C.W.: considering the making ' of a new 000c; extra No. 1 feed, 5000; No, 1 feed, ' 70c; No. 2 feed, 70ck Barley -No. 8, rhyl to Groanant road at 0 cost of 51.25; No, 4, 51.20; reieeted and reed, £24,000 as an after -the -war scheme. 51.50. Flex -No. 1 N.W.C., 53.044; No. Sir Amer. --.0 2 0,W., WS.t ti sanquet has retired — from the office of Common Sergeant United States Markets of the City of London after seven- lli Ane. oils Dec Vt.-Corn-No. 3 teen and a half years o'f. service. Two Labor party candidates will run for the Middlesborough electoral districts. London County Council's - new hall arly sad case of a Canadian Govern- ment employee named MacDonald, doCtors and nurses worked heroically who, on rushing to his home after the in rendering aid to the injured. HAIG ADJUSTS CAMBRAI LINE British Slightly Advance Lines Southwest of La Vaequerie. A despatch Irons London says: The British have slightly advanced their line southwest of Le Vacquerie, on the Cambrai front, it was announced of- ficially on Thursday. On Tuesday night, the official state- ment says the British troops with- drew to the southwest of Noyelles- sur-PEscaut and tiourlon Wood. The • withdrawal, it is added, was accom- plished 'without the Germans appear- ing to be aware of it until late yes- terday. Minor hostile attacks south of Bourlon Wood were repulsed with severe loss testhe enemy. •S• .AMERICAN 11100) ••••• CROSS SENDS MD A despatch from Washington says: -Aid for the stricken city of Halifax %,...--was started forward on Thursday night by the American Red Groin. On the special train' sentlfrom Boston by the Governor of Massachusetts were six .experienced disaster relief workers v,ith quantities of surgical supplies, bedding and clothieg, and a special Red Cross tiain from New York car- ried food, mattresses, blankets, sweat- ers, overcoats and a large quantity of clothing for women and children. --4---- BARERS MUST SAVE WHEAT FOR ALLIES' NEED. A despatch from Ottawa Says: Hon, W.` J. Hamm, Food Controller, has sent a•naessage to the bakers' conven- tion in Toronto urging upon the dele- gates the necessity of considering by what -means the consumption of wheat in this country might he reduced. He states in his massage that owing to the distance of Europe from Argon- tina-msd Australia the allies will be dependent (luring the next three or They Shou Id Worry. four months on Canada and thesT.Init- John Bull and Uncle Sam' have their 07041 troubles, but they are little ed States for wheat supplies, and 000' effort should be made to see ones compared to Kaiser Bill's: that that wed is Met,' tr VIVSKAMMACIACCMCIIMINGISMOMMECOMM7101.01.........?..M7M1111/112,1.0,42,......V.I.W.MM1 ..M1,74.0.92612....11=0=1614144.0.4.•11:61.12011.10Trt4.0.etam,-moposoracamurrssomm-umwarzrmanwsliane.ran:.......- • ' • • • • BIG HARBORS NEEDED WHEN GREAT WAR IS OVER. A despatch from London says: Im- provement in sea transportation was discussed at the London Chamber of -Commerce, when Lord Dabernon em- phasized the need of bigger ships of great speed after the sVar. He sug- gested the Government should start the provision of big harbors. About $20,000,000 would provide for ves- sels of 88 -foot draughts at practical- ly all the leading harbors from Great Britain to the furthest dominions. • • The report of the Dominions Royal Commission just issued gives memoranda and tables as to harbors thronghout the Empire. CEREAL FOOD IN PACKAGES. Food Controller Announces Change in Regulations. A despatch from Ottawa says: An- nouncement is made by the Food Con- troller that licenses would be iesued, permitting the manufacture and im- portation of specific cereal foods in Packages of less weight than twenty Pounds, under certain regulations. Dealers, other than those manufactur- ing oe inverting packages of cereals, will be exempted from the provisions of the order -in -Council of October 19. TO SURVEY RESOURCES OF ONTARIO'S FORESTS. A despatch :from 'Ottawa says: The Commission of Conservation hopes CELLULOID COMES -TO ITS OWN. Starch -Saving Necessitated by the War Effects Change. is the -world war going to bring the celluloid collar into almost universal use? It would seem/that it is. The fact that men who wear them are sav- ing tarch is no Small matter, not to mention laundry bills. Celluloid collars to -day are worn by many army officers and by naval men who are, or may be, far from hum - ',111°g• 'Nig? Tng...i,--ciTgi,g; $40 to :Ilulut0. "Dee. 11 -Linseed -On t: 2010;. 10 arrive, $3.2fit; Decem 3.231 asked; May, $3.23d; .1331.y,1 &I! vil:irtater, 'ae1c, ber, 3.20d 5:14. lave Stook Markets dries, These collars are not the shiny Torenlo, Dec. 11 -Extra choice heavy :2;.,cti:r yap% years. Indeed, they are made in such il'10:50 to Sis',70'; do:.° :tin' tl, 20..41%12r 0 70 1.5$:151i01.040E•01L2;11 beand which have been ridieuled for s.,,teers,- attractive form as to be hardly dis- do.. medium, 55 to $0.25:: do., 00111111011, tinguishable from so-called "linen" pH to 5925; S't2250;; abot.i,legg blalls' 0,11Veteci collars, which are made of muslin. Be- 8; do., ineditrin bulls, $7.30 to47.35; sides, they can be washed with soap (eTe• rgg 1:Visseo.$111.57stoto"SIN5;butg.-. and water when dirty. They last about good, $7.85: to $0,50; do., medium, $0,85 to $7; stockers, 57,25 to 58.00; feeders. six weeks if properly handled, $0.25 to 510; canners and -cutters, 55.15 Although .celluloid is allied with' so $5,50; milkers, good to choice, ess to gun -cotton, it is not explosive. It is ?5,1s8,,?,i,gs.„6,"sirliS0 TriSorelli .575 swtsos.51.1 not a munition.. Many storids are told to .514's sheep, heaT 50 to 107.75; ;VOW bf celluloid collar . accidents.. When lasSal..14.92,0gls`g$1g.,7,,„,ei:„-sivi it:1751121 lighted it -does burn with a well-adver- hogs, fed Sala ,wa.terecl. 537.20 to 217.00 do., aried orr otre, 517.50 to $17,75 do., 1', • 515.35 to 5.10.76. -,.....----. tised sizzling sorincl, but net any faster than ppper. ....- • ,..,....;-4-- THREE MONTHS' TRIP TO ARCTIC ---• .— ARE PRIZE -WINNERS... Expedition Will Leave Dawson Soon, CANADIAN sligtp . —7--- . To Get Mails. A despatch from Daween says: A. A despatch from Chicago says: Canadian R.N.W.M,P. expedition is Canadian sheep again came - to the being formed hete to leave. Dawson front on Thursday at the International about the first of the -year for the Are - Live Stdelt Exposition and -carried tic coast.. The party will go directly away most of the honors in the South- across the Rocky Mountains through down division. The sheep •of . Robert Seely Pass. to Fort McPherson, 600 Mdtwarn• of Lerida, ,zit., took the miles, all in the wilderness, using dog teams'. Corp. Richardson will have charge,`with three other officers and Indian guides Malting up the party. At FortMcPhersonthey will meet At Patin)) from Herschel Island; which turns back there, after exchanging mails, The expedition will reach . .. . soon to undertake a survey of the for- majority of the ptizes. Many of the est resources of Ontario similar to the. animals from these imns ate of pure investigations it has already made in Scottish breed, and their importation British;Columbia and. Saskatchewan. has 'tended to keep the stock high, Only the most fragmentary data re- specting the forests of Ontario are —4-- now available, although there is a vast ' anniunt. of detailed infoemation in the School Boys and Birds. - D possession of timber owners, Goverh- The little .22 ride 111 the hands of poaysssloilaltyi bl.:htllilytnnardvitaiensp firisnhh, oAllartce meet officers and railways, which the boy is a serious menace to bled Arctic expedition of Stefansson and could probably be secured. The Com-, life, Give it young lad' one of these others, . mission is hantlicapPed in undertak- miniature nines, and he is at pee their dpendence upon the work the am- i Dr, .I. H, Claris states that table ing such an investigation by the scar- bitiou.s to test it out on killing some - city of competent foresters. thing.'If schoolsalt highly diluted with powdered esugar of Tan is wonderfully remedial Just Like Home. - birds do to protect man's food supply fer • catarehtil colds, Several of his The &etch Haig evidently feels from destructive insects, they wol.thi patient:1 who tried it declared they that he isfighting in his Aisne eosin- ',place a tatteh greater value upon their never got rid of 0 cold so quickly ie feathered friends. ths.h. lines, . "CORNER THE DYE TRADE!" . M.H.C. Gives mea -Re-Educational Courses in Indnatrial Chemistry. "Corner the dye trade!". With this slogan and the high ambition to get the trade away from Germany, :the convalescent soldiers taking a course in industrial chemiatry at the Central Technical 'School in Toronto, are- at least snaking long strides toward mak- ing Canada independent of the Bodies when the war is over and industrial life resumes its' usual color. The importance of the German dye industry to this continent is evident when it is remembered that the mer- chant submarine which crossed • to United States last year from Germany •carried dyes as a major portion of her cargo. That this condition may not maintain when the war is over both countries are now engaged ip. research work that .they may discover their own formulas. The soldiers in the course provided by the .Military Hospitals Commission at the Toronto school are paying spe- cial attention to this phase of their work, and are making; great progress. The demand for trained men in this occupation will be greater every- year as Canadian manufacture increases, an& the future holds great opportun- ity for the men who qualify. Save Oiled Paper. Save all the oiled paper that comes wrapped about bread or in cake and cracker boxes. When you bake potatoes cut off the ends of each po- tato and wrap them in the oiled paper. Pin the paper over carefully. It is a pleasure to note how much one saves on the skins. They will be thin and soft and there is 110 waste. ikre'LL. GET weist.,Bu'r BILL'S OT SOMETuim, ?LE Irev'sitz. W2GE T OVE11P —Ass'osts,' Dowr I< NOW 1 Cout.oNT ,1121,1 .ro 1.01A, • ss,„ ;rsvCe.41P.S..5'. Fs;--sa.msse. 111 "X Imp 311, claim mai tame, 1 111B1.1..,"101ELls, WELL, IP His 'MY 01D coRAE,••r.- LOW Do 11tJoV4 ABoVi 1714Evrc 1 04 'I -VELEM , stile WHAT rooNir - I 'Nov6141' 'TRIG IVIING 4ATi 135001 111RoWN 0UT 40016 Aro LWiLL-176110uLD Nskla De514 noCROss NURSE DECORATED VALOROUS ACnoist imw..utpu.) DT* FRENCH. GOVERNMENT. ""!"' • Tolle Story of a German Air Reid on the Hospital Near Fumes, F Decorated bytrhaenc;rench Govern- ment for valorous action, during which she was wounded while serving ,as 01 aurae, Miss Madeline F. Jaffrey, (laughter of J, 13, Jaffrey, Canadian to:Test::: pagtoentth,ewhheoell.ives in Philadel- phia, (Arrived home on November 27. She was wounded by a piece of shrap- nel when a bomb dropped by -a Ger-. mass aviator split her left foot from Miss Jaffrey was wounded on June 6 while near Furnes, France, early in the morning, as she was making her rounds of the huts where the wound- ed Were being cared ion An English soldier who was writing a lettee in 0110 of the shelters was also wounded by another piece of shrapnel fromthe same bomb, Jaffray was earnest in het praise of the efficiency of the French surgeons and nurses. She said it was a great privilege to be able to work with such splendid persons, and if she was able to return she would surely do so. She did not think this would be possible for at least one year, and, she declared, with a sigil, perhaps never. Unless she completely recriCers the use of her foot she feels she will not be able to return to France, as she says: "One must be able to o. real work in that country or one is in the way." - A Moonlight Raid. "It was a fairly quiet night when I was wounded, although we expected action before morning. I was making my hoisrly `rounda,' and was returning to rase own hut by way of a covered passageway'. Four bombs had fallen that night in a field just across from Use shelter, in which the nurses live; and, consequently, I was on my guard. "Suddenly an airplane swooped delve fresh a' sky that was almost as bright as day with a beautiful moon. As 1 heard the rush, I sprang forward int( the- passageway. In doing so ms left foot left the ground and remain, ed beyond the entrance. At that mo' ment the bomb exploded and the shrapnel cut directly through from my instep to my heel.. Nurses and doctors carried me into the hut, Ther I was operated on and I feel grate- ful to the French surgeons and nurses who were • constantly in attendance. After two' weeks I went to Paris and rernained there until I sailed for this country ofi November 15. I will ye. ceive further treatment in this eity, after which I will visit friends ir. Canada," Asked whether the German airmen could have known the' huts attacked were hospital shelters,. Miss Jaffrey said they could not possibly miss the large red cross painted on a white field on the roof of every one, to say nothing of the Red Cross flags flying in all parts of the hospital reservation. BRAIN AS ALARM CLOCK. Can Be Trained To Call Sleeper At Required Hour, "My friend who occupies the room next tcsmine and does not have to rise early 'tells me," said a man who has to get up early, "that my alarm clock disturbs him; that it wakes hinl up be- fore his time. But now here is an in- teresting thing about that: "My clock wakes him up if he new the night before that I had set it; but if he did not know that I had set 11 110 ringing does not wake him up. "That would seem curious but for the fact that the winding of the clock produces an equally interesting though somewhat different effect on myself. Suppose I set the alarm fos. 6.30. In such case I am likely to wake up just before that hour. "Waking up in that manner I look at the clock and finding it to be, say, 6.25, I shut ofr the alarm, so that it won't ring, and then I get up, unless Lam foolish enough to think I'll lie there just ten minutes more, when I am likely to go instantly to sleep and sleep over half an hour or an hour, with iso alarm clock to waken me. "No doubt the reason my friend ir the next room is awakened by my alarm clock, when he knows that have set it, is that his mind is recep- tive to it, sensitive to it; while when he does not, know'that I have set it the ringing does not find any respon- sively sensitive spot in his brain and sloes not awaken him, "of course, it is by the same sort of mental operation that I am awakened just before the clock strikes. When I wind the clock I fix in my mind the fact that 1 want to get up at a certain hour and my brain does the rest, "There are plenty of people wht have to get up eatly who never use an alarm clock; they rise at a fixed hour -regularly by force of habit. They say te themselves, Now I mud get up ' itt such and such an hour; and the brain somehow makes a record of that call and at that hour calls the sleeper. "The Marin clock is an ingenious piece of mechanism; the human brain is something very wonderful." (1.----dvice7o)Teachess. Be careful of your ehildren, Let them know That to be truly groat they must be, th01;like , sea-mark,Let guide course` In the rough voyage of temptupus lite; • Season their early youth with wholes' Teachmiether teee8erlit, not desire, do- Iotfidosrtif4.tuotlrtt o aiouieuioni;' age mh fickle tuna, That they in an events may bo the Haywood, 501120.