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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1917-12-27, Page 6..__:. Bank of Montreal 'BALL ONS OF Reports Assets in Excess of $400,000,0001 MODERN WARFARE .Zy'Ja,s, NORMAN HALL/. CHAPTER TTL—(Cont'd.l qtr, but chiefly In the use of our rifles. "All men needing hoots, one pato Through constant handling they le - step forward March!",came a part of us, a third arm which 1.'he' lletoon sixty -live Srongt steps We grow to use eluite instinctively. foiwarid as 01100 man, We fired the roue:it's, and later, the "All nnen needing braces, one pace drained so)dier'e emlirse in Imteketi'y s'tim back, Mat•chI" 1 on the rifle ranges at Hythe and Again we move es a unit. The quer-, Aldershot, gradually improving our tel master hesitates fora moment; but technique, until we were able to fire 1 1 .t rosouret el man and h. 1 bee .! with Borne accuracy, fifteen rounds per through this mnint times before. We' minute. Wen we had achieved this all need boots, quite right! Bnt the .difficult feat, we ceased to be recruits. initiation is, Who need the.n most? I We were skilled soldiers of the proud .Undoebtedly those whose feet are and illustrious order known es "Eng- most in evidence through worn soles land's Mad -Minute Mor." After And tattered uppers, Adopting this :musketry plagtiee, •the remainder of sight test, he elimates more than half the day was given to extended order, ••the platoon, whereupon, by a further company, and battalion drille Twice • process' of elimination, due to the fact, weekly we route -marched from ten that he has only sizes 7 and 8, he to fifteen miles; and.at night, after • selects the fortunate twelve who are, the parades for the day were finished, to walk dry shod, ! boxing and wrestling contests, ase - The same method of procedure is ranged and encouraged by•our officers, carried ont in selecting the braces., kept the red blood pounding through Private Reynolds, whose trousers aro our bodies until light out' sounded held in place by -a wonderful mechan-; at nine's o'clock. ism composed of shoe -laces and bite of . The character of our training chang• string, receives a pair; likewise; Priv- ed as we progressed. We were done. ate Stenebras, who, with the aid of with squad, platoon, and company safety ,pins, has.feehioned coat and drill.• Then carne field maneuvers; at - trousers into an ingenious one-piece tacks in open formation upon in, garment. Gaps and putees are die-; trenched positions, finishing always tr'ibuted with like importiality, and we with terrific bayonet charges. There dismiss the unfortunate ones growl -1 were mimic battles, lasting all day, ing. and -grumbling in discreet under'-, with from ten to twenty thousand men Wises nti es ul the platoon commander is; on each side. Artillery, infantry, out of hearing, whereupon the our -'cavalry, air craft --every branch of. army service, in fact—had a share in these exciting field days when we gained hlooclless victories or died pain - lose and easy deaths at the command some -lot o' pozzle wallopers? Ser- of red -capped field jtulges. We rush- .. vice? We ain't never a-go'n' to see, ed boldly to the charge, shouting lust - service! You blokes won't, but watch! ily, each man striving to be first at the • me! I'm a-go'n' to grease off out o' enemy's position, only to be intercept this mob!" ed by a staff officer on horseback, stay- servedly unpopular reservist when he Noone remonstrated with this dee.' ing the tide of -battle, with uplifted grumbled about the shortage of sup -1 hand. 1 plies. He voiced the general senti- "March your men back, officer ment. We all felt that we would like, You're out of action! My word! you've to "grease off" out of it, Our defieien made a bestly mess of it! You're cies in clothing and equipment were) not on church parade, you know! You niet by the Government with what/ advanced across the open for three seemed to us amazing slowness. How- quarters -of a mile in close column of ever, Tommy is a sensible matt, He platoons! Three batteries,of field realized that England had a big con- artillery and four machine uns have tract to fulfill, and that the first duty blown you to blazes! You haven't a was to provide for the armies in the left!" field. France, Russia, Belgium, all man , were looking to England for supplies. Sometimes we reached our objective Kitchener's Mob must wait, trusting with less tearful slaughter, but at the to -the genius for organization, the moment when there should have been faculty for getting things done, of its the sharp clash and clang of steel on great worthy chief, K. of K. steel, the cries and groans of men Our houeiug accommodations, fighting for their lives, we heard tine 91ghout the antmmn and winter of bugles from far and near, sounding 14- 1914-15, when England was in such urgent need of shelter for her rapidly increasing armies, were also of the makeshift order. We slept in .leaky tents or in hastily constructed wooden shelters, many of which were eater - ward cotidenined by the medical in- snectors. St. Martin's Plain, Shorn- clifl'e, wee an ideal camping -site for pleasant summer weather. But when the autumnal mins set In, the green pasture land became a quagmire. Mud was the great reality of our lives, the malignant deity which wet fell down (in) and propitiated with profane rites. It was a thin, watery mud or a thick, viscous mud, as the steady downpour inereesed or diminished. bate in November wo were moved to a city of wooden huts at Sanclling Junc- tion, to make room for newly recruited units. The dwellings 'weee but half - finished, the drains were open ditches, dnd the rains descended and the floods Dame as usual. We lived an.amphi- biolis-and wretched •existenee until Sanaa"^, when, to our great joy, we were transferred to billet., lin the Metropolt, one of Folkestone's most fashionable heels. To be sure, we slept °Where flood's, brit the roof was etlinprpof, which was the essential thing. The aeethetioally inclined could lie. in, their blankets at night, gazing et richly gilded mirrors over the mantelpieces and • • beautifully frescoed ! ceilings xi:furnishings our apartments in all their former splen- dor. Private Henry Morgan was' not of this type. Henry canoe in one evening 'rather the worse for liquor and with clubbed musket assaulted his unlovely reflection in an expensive mirror, I believe he is still paying fur his lack of restraint et the rate of a sixpence per day, and will have can- celed his obligation by January, 1921, if the war continues until that time. Although we were poorly equipped and sonetinnes wretchedly housed, the commissariat was excellent and on the moat generous scale from the very beginning. Indeed, there was nearly nuns of discontent become loudly articulare. "Kitchener's Rag-Timie Army I calls it!" growlsthe veteran of South African fanie. "Ain't we a 'and - The Bank of Montreal, follow. lm its "teriurnfversnry, 1s out nvt in rte rengeSt statement and vstabllehes new high record* ,a MI]TITODS Af? Oil}'I'A.INING 1'1111 • allrineleel ,Recounts, Tho pposition shown by an ex- NECESSARY HYDROGEN. aminatiou orf the statement for • the tlsoal year ending Oetehec l7et, 1917,•1*, as remarkable as It is 1'eciSSIA'Ing, ITatd In hand With tremendous 1Ot1 Ine lin assets --malting It 005- el1i1R fel' the Batik to report totat aSeets In excess 01' teat' hundred minion dollars (the APIA time such a ngure has been reached in Canadian banking) It lifts de, v"lOi ed a position of still greater strength 50 represented by llnuld assets equivalent to over 7510 oe nobilities t0 punk. At the sae time the various necountm s reflect the large and important under- takings, in' connection With the war, which the 130n1c le nearing Out on behalf of the Dominion and British Governments, It has algid been possible to meet the larger requirements of customers as reflected by a substantial gala to current loans, STEADY EXPANSION OIr DEPOSITS The savings accounts of the People of the country continue 10 pile • uP. steadily and now amount to over $246,000,000; an increase of almost; 136,000,000 for the year, or at the rate of close to 03,000,000 a month. As the bankers of the Govern- ment, the Bank of Montreal has evidently assumed its full share 11,3, Providing for the country's needs, as indicated by an increase of twenty-eigilt million dallalis Inn the value of Dominion and Pro- vincial Government sonorities; an - increase of seven million in the Deposit in Central Gold Re- serves; balance 'due to the Do- minion Government of $13,038,062, the latter account appearing for the first tone in the Bank's Statement. The flunk has perhaps rendered a still greater service to the coun- try by 'ceasing itself In such shape es to create complete con- fidence In Canada's financial 0001 - lion during a most trying period. SUBSTANTIAL GAIN IN EARNINGS The profit and loss account shows that earnings allow a 00111- for•table margin over the dividend and bonus requirements. They are substantially above those of the previous year. The net Pro- fits .for the twelve months amounted to 02,477.900.09. equi- valent to 15.49% on the paid-up capital. Added to the balance of profit and loss, they brought the buU totaoul rtnnoulupto $3,il ava302,3llabls03. for d1st,'1- F.PA:TU1.J0i0 Ob" GENERAL. STATEMENT The principal accounts and compari- sons with those of the previous year are as follows: - 1917 1016 Total assets .. 9403,080.236 $305,215,541 Liquid. assets . 276,298.897 210,082,600 Total deposits. 317,150,427 200,200,040 Circulation ... 29,308,086 21,779,134 Cold and Silver coin '20,592,891 21,040.003 Dominion notes 30,760,233 20,1732210 Deposits in cen- tral gold res. 14.500,000 7,600,000 Call and short loans.... 1.00,010.214 113,002,097 Dom. and Prov. Govt. see'tles 23,573,322 419,736 Can, Man. se- curities and. r •1d 1' r. Work P01101110 By Two Varieties Of Balloons, Called "Sausages and "'131itnjls." - Balloons ere playing a very import- ant part in the war, especially "sau- sage balloond," for observation per - poses, and "blimps," tie the scout hal- Leone are called, •A blimp leas a car, somewhat re- sembling a wingless a!uplane, pro- vided with a powerful engine that en- ables it to tl'nvol at a rapist rate, The observation balloon . is usually stationed about four miles behind the firing line, so as to be reasonably safe from gunfn'o, and is moored by a wire , cable, 'Extending through the cable is a telephone wire, by which the officer in charge of the balloon car. communicate:; with the battery com- manders, co•reeting the fire of their guns. War balloons, of coru'se,.asee filled with hydrogen, and to .supply the lat- ter in adequate quantities is in itself a problem of no small importance. Hydrogen Gas Needed. Hydrogen gas may be obtained from water. For this purpose sulphuric acid is added to the water, which is tlleileby made a good conductor of electricity. When, thereupon, a cur- rent is passed through the water, the latter is split apart chemically, hydro- gen coming out at the cathode and oxygen at the anode. This is too bothersomely technical; so suffice it to say that the hydrogen obtained by this means, in the form of a gas, is received in an iron con- tainer, from which it is"transferred to steel cylinders under pressure, At the present time, however, the hydrogen gas for our war balloons it being produced from a mixture o ferro-silicon and caustic soda. Thr latter '(derived from ordinary tabl salt) is used in a solution, the wee: in which yields up its hydrogen in the THE PRINCIPAL CUTS OF BEEF presence of the Ferro -silicon. For war purposes this method of getting hydrogen Inas great advant- ages, inasmuch as the gas can easily be generated in the field. But just at present it is hard to get ferro-silicon and caustic soda in adequate quanti- ties—not because they are scarce, but for the reason that they are needed for other uses. Accordingly, the War Department is trying to find a the "stand by," and friend and enemy unfit Co secs, cheaper and easier process for obtain - dropped wearily to the ground for a other than ing hydrogen by electrolysis from Canadhur ... '3,455.254 21.700,150 water. rest while our officers assembled in Current loans. ii7,6o7.404 93,ra9,o65 conference around the motor of the Loans to cities, divisional general.memos ... 11,111,3133 11,205,67:1 Curt. loans and - •All this was playing at war, and D1sc.clsewhere .10,045,Sli0,470.260 Tommy was `,`fed•up",with.play. As dui. ca�i;d fod. i;64671;su3 /;474,423 we marched back to barracks after a long day of Monotonous field manoeu- THIS ANI) OTHER WARS. vers, life eased his mind by making car- castie comments upon this inconclu- sive kind of warfare. He began to doubt the good faith of the War Office in Ancient and Modern Warfare. calling ours 0 "service" battalion. As War with all its modern horrors is likely as not we were for home de- fense and would never be sent abroad. A COURSE IN HOUSEHOLD SCIENCE TWENTY-FIVE LESSONS, I.esgon XXIII, ,,Cuts of Beef. A M/4 OGNRTER . THE /Nt .1.1/eY, ?OOA/VO S/NN A .'01?o QLGM/01'. co.rdbv/NG ,W /c'/El, IRATE, chlor.4000• A4 -CR .4 5/OE AF .c9ZEF "Left! Right! Left! Right! Why did. I join the army? Ohl Why did I ever join Kitchener's Mob? Lor lummy! 1 meet 'ave been balmyl" became the„T`avorite, homeward -bound marching song. And sb he "groused" and grumbled after the manner of Tommies the world over, And in the mean time he was daily approaching more nearly the standard of efficiency sof: by England's inexorable War Lord. It was interesting to note the physical improvement in the men wrought by a life of healthy, well - ordered routine. My battalion was recruited largely from what is known in England as "the lower middle classes." There were shop assistants, clerks, radlwey and city employees, tradesmen, and a generous sprinkling or common laborers. Many of them had been used to indoor life, practical- ly all of them- to city life, and need- ed months of the haitdest kind of training before they could be seasoned and toughened to withstand the hard- ships of active service. (To be continued,) The Letter. ' From a soil drenched in blood; where its much food wasted as eaten al- cries of the dying .though they regretted seeing such Are borne by the winds o'er the quantities of food thrown daily into deep booming sea, the refuse-batrels.. 1 often felt that You come, a white thing, to step niy something should be done about.. it. Many- exposes were, 111 fact, written healt'tt crying; :from. all parts or l,ulglaul.e. It was ' To give A dear bit of yourself unto irritating' to react orf Gemini.' efficiency me. int the presence of England's extrava- gant and unbusinesslike methods. Tommy would say. "Lor, lummyl Ain't we got no pigs in England? That there fond won't he welted. We'll be eatin' it in sausages Wren we goes acrost the .Channel"; whereupon he dismissed the whole qucstion'fr0m 1141 mind. This seemed to me then the typical• Anglo-Saxon attitude, Every- where there was waste, muddle -head- edness, and apparently. 1t Was 'no- Se strong lies Ile Horde you.. -so fear - body's concern. Camps ri•Ctrc sited in less, so tender, the wrong places and buildings' erect- I would that all sons had been coo- ed only to be condemned. Tons of defied by you; food were purchased overseas, trans - .God-given your spirit, ae able k- notted across thousands of miles -o£' fender ocean,—only to be thrown into refuse Ol' liberty, loyalty, all khat is true. b . 1 . The Government vas ' rob - Oh, boy, in that land of rude--clisas- ter— In that hell of mac'lline gun, of rifle and shell, Just to know 71001 ars mine, makes my heart beat the faster; Bone of my bona -God fashioned you well. The beef is split into halves; it is then divided into fore and hind quar- ters, and as follows: NECK—The neck is used for stew- ing, soups, beef tea and corning; re- quiring long and continuous cooking. CHUCK—Chuck and crosscut is also called the Boston and English cut. It is used for roasting, rot roasting and braising. BOLAR CUT—A steak may be cut from this cut of meat. ' It is used for pot roasting and braising. Byslow cooking this meat is made delicious and tender. SHIN—Used for stews and soup making. for stews, soup making and corning. RIBS—Used for roasting. PLATE—Used for stews and soup making. Observation Balloons. It will be understood that the ob- servation balloon is always a "cap • - tive" balloon. Usually it is about eighty feet long, and contains 20,000 cubic feet of hydrogen. Its sausage shape gives it a much greater sta- bility in the air than is glnjoyed by rhe spherical gasbag. l�� really a brighter and more endurable It is carried by and sent up from a tieing than the ancient struggles. War specially designed motortruck, the as•wnged 100 years ago would appal a windlass on which its cable is wound twentieth century man. He would not being operated by the truck's own have faced liquid fire in those days. gasoline engine. Thus it is readily Cannon were few in number and short of range. Grenades were restricted to naval battles. There were no "star shells" nor barrage fires. Trenches were shallow ditches behind scooped - up mounds of earth. The dommunica- tion trench had not been heard of. One didn't stand in inundated trenches for long hours in the clays of Washington or Napoleon. But the facilities for housing the soldiers were far worse then than now. The food was abominable. It might be unvarying, un -nutritious, even harm- ful. It .might bring on scurvy or cholera, as it often did, but no effort was made to alter the soldier's rations. Amusing him would have been con- sidered absurd "mollycoddling." He found his own amusement when on leave in the taverns .and bars and low theatres. Instead of being for- bidden to sell him drinks, the inn- keeper was enjoined by custom to see that the soldier's demands were promptly filled. There were no Y. M.C.A. influences in camp. Fighters were rough men and the barrack -room Seats and songs have long been pro- verbial as things unmentionable else- where. Men were supposed to keep fit and March on: salt pork, coarse bread and "grog"—the latter often served with a pinch of gunpowder, added as cal- culated to increase the consumer's val- or, Surgery knew no refinements. Ef- forts to patch up maimed arms and shattered faces were unknown, Typhoid, cholera and other camp epidemics resultant from impure water and bad sanitary conditions killed off more' men annually than the enemy and little effort was made to improve sanitation of the camp or barracks. Much o1 the work of am- putating bullet-slhattered limbs was done without anesthetics. Indeed in the tenth century. the limb was-crtnde- ly hacked off and the stump plunged in boiling tar! War is 11 terrible thing at c'll tines, and modern ingenuity seems to have transportable, and can be put into the air in a few minutes wherever it may be needed. The truck carries a telephone switchboard, and wires communicating with the latter niay be transported in an astonishingly brief time by motor- cyclists to batteries of artillery along a wide front. Almost offhand the military observer, some thou'sauls of feet aloft, is enabled to view the battle scone and direct the 'firing of the guns. Mschineiy for generating the hyclro- gen'gas and compressing it in steel cylieders is installed on railroad cars conveniently near. From the enemy's point of 01CW, of course, it is of utmost importance to destroy the observation balloons, which are literally the eyes of his ad- versary. His flying machines will try to "kill" them with incendiary bullets, But each balloon is guarded by anti- aircraft guns below and . by fighting airplanes overhead, so that an attack is not easily successful. A single well -aimed incendiary bul- let will destroy an observation balloon, setting the gas on fine, so that it is totally consumed in a minute. 'But the observers in the car (of whom usually there are two) escape with the help of parachutes. AN T1CIPATiON! Man -Eating Sharks Follow Submar- ines for .Thousands of Miles. It has long been a deep-rooted maritime supposition that a shards following a ship had a ghastly pre- science of death among the crew. ".lack afloat"•seems to delight in fab- ricating unscientific theories wherein to repose a vast and misplaced con- fidence. But the penchant recently developed among men -eating sharks for following submarines seems at first blush to justify this oldest of marine legends. Up in the English Channel, where eras t r io the shark ordinarily ds a stranger, bel • by avaricious hotel -keepers who augmented many of its horrors. .But "'ores of them have been reported, Made and were granted absurd cloims Out .over the seas,a-pall; the 1:-'111''' in all oilier respects than that of mere C,ermar sailors have alleged that the . for damages done to: their property dens of flowers, meehanical and chemical efficiency the great scavengers of the sea followed by billeted troops. Blit: with vast I whisper nl.y hopes to that far -business o- fight;ng ds much !mercy- then' submarines for thousands of new armies, recruited overnight, 1t is dream of great ;joy. in the pale. ted., arva.y ]and, edcunt that of any preceding rccetliit' p cried, miles. And certainly whore the Gee_ not strange that there should be mis- Management and friction at 'first. As light hours, the months passed, there vas a mark- ed change for the better, -British efl'i- Cod gram that you know them- eieness asserted itself. This was made evident o us in scores of ways—the distribution of supplies, the housing and ego pping of troops; their move. Ments frolrn one training area to en - ether, At the last, we could only marvel .that a great. and complicated military nlaehiile heel been so admit:- . Abl.. and quickly - etfected. Ably o'er rigaroue training bottinued front week to week in all tveatinoxs, even the Mogi: Meloment, Reveille sounded ab dsyybeeak. Ft r Aft lie r before brealereet we did s stern of mnestic edf �i drilf. A e SW s f Y , y g.. . i which brought every lazy and disused muscle into !Slay, - TWO hours daily Were given to musl0etly practice. Wo Were 'patented in the deseription •and, xccogn.itien of targete, the use of eov- std so tuulcr'Laud, —Blanche Adelaide Donaldson, Have you learned the newest word, "camouflage"? Pronounce it: "cam-00- flazh," with the first "a" short and the last one broad. It has several meanings, meat of them siangl but it le generally accepted as moaning 'a make-ulr or disguise, Our French brethren, called eamofleurs, are just as expert in the art as we are in the use of the new Word. They cover the railroad tracks with sod, surround their big guns with brandies of trees, 'ancient°Greeks, Lamps, indeed, are paint the ambulances 00 tiny blend pictured upon some of their' oldest home grounds replace the dead trees indicating at re cut down with new trues early with the landscape, etc., malting them vases, the symbolic sngnl- that t C, invisible to the Gorman aviators, licence Which attached to thorn, next spring. Ahelenk Lamps. The candle is in appearance 11 mien - Live affair, yet them is •little doubt that its predecessor was the lamp. Those did Egyptian tombs, which have unloc,lced'many mysteries, held lamps, and through them evidence of ancient of the submersibles orf the gulf stream buiriaf eustons. Lamps played A part and tropic waters, Set, Whatever the nine subersibles !revel there has been no cieorth of human prey fel' these v0rac1ous monitors, Scientists believe that it is rather the novelty of the submarine duan any brine instinct for food that causes the big man-eaters to trail them far ont in the solemn :feasts of the Egyptians, reason, wa' time excitement seems to who on each occasions' placed them have seized even the dwellers in the before their houses, burning them- s10ar1owy depths, throughout the night. He'odotus, in - - - one of his numerous references to Take the crooked and defective trees Xerxes, alludes to the hour of lamp from the wood lot end the old'tl•ees lighting, and evtdellces ttb our nd . re- garding the use of lamps among the e more that half dead about are a I the Place, Burn wood wherever it is possible to save coal, About the, • SIRLOIN—Used for broiling. FLANK—Used for stewing. RUMP—Steaks from Hie runup are used for broiling and pan-broiling. The back cut from the rump is used for roasting. The pin belie is the face cut from the ramp averaging from six to eight pounds. iROUND—The meat is so called be- cause of the way .in witch it lies on the block'. The upper or top of the round is the inside of the the leg. This is the tenderest portion. It is cooked by broiling or panning, The back cuts are used for Hamburg steaks, pot roasts and corning. The lower part of the round is the outside i of the leg. The first few steak from this portion are tender; the rest is used far Hamburg steaks, stews and pot roasts. A WELL-BALANCED MEAL. Onion Soup.—Two large onions, two lard, three-quarters cupful of mills. tablespoonfuls of butter. Peal the Mix the dry ingredients, then rub in omen and chop fine. Cook in short- the shortening. A.dd mills and mix ening until very brown, taking care to a dough. Roll out one-quarter inch not to burn• Add one carrot, two cup- thick, cut with' biscuit cutter. Lay fuls of water. Cook slowly until the on top of chicken pie, then brush the vegetables can be rubbed through a lop of each biscuit with milk. Bake fine sieve. Now add one cupful of in a hot oven for twenty-five minutes. milk, two tablespoonfuls of flour. Serve on dish. This amount of dough Blend well. Add milk and onion mIx- mixture snakes twelve biscuits. ture. Cook slowly for ten minutes Apple Turnover.—One cupful of and add one teaspoonful of finely flour, one-half teaspoonful of salt, one chopped parsley. teaspoonful of baking powder, four Creole Louisiana Cricket. Pie.— tablespoonfuls of shortening, 'three Clean, cut and cook until tender a tablespoonfuls of water. Mix dry in - three -pound stewing chicken. When gradients, then rub in the shortening, tender lift on to baking dish, Add and mix to dough with cold water. eight small potatoes, two onions, one Roll on a pastry board, cut out with carrot, which have been cooked until large cutter such as the top of a pound tender in .the chicken broth. Season coffee can. Lay a large tablespoon - with salt and pepper. Add one tea- fel of minced apple on each round. spoonful of finely chopped paisley. Brush with cold water, fold over and Now mix two cupfuls of floor, one tea- brush with water. Dust With pulver- spoonful of salt, four teaspoonfuls of /zed sugar and bake in moderate oven baking powder, two tablespoonfuls of for fifteen minutes, Serve warns, THE RIDDLE OF • the worship of the God of the Morn- ing. They showed that it was very old Wadebridge, where lie watched th:,m in the time .of Cheops (who built the enter a certain house, of rvluoln he had Great Pyramid in 13700 B,C.), and that a vivid memory. Cheops himself "restored" it with t elaborate repairs,In the company of .t n+ police, he WEEN DREAMS WERE DETE{TIVES. CLUES '1'O CRIMES TI-IiI"T '13AF FLED ALL SKILL. Some Extraordinary Cases by Which, ,-1 Wrong -Doing Has Been Revealed. The American recently hanged int. North-West Canada is by no meansi the only murderer who has been brought to the gallows by a dream) says a London Weekly. Indeed, the, ,records are plentifully sprinkled with cases In which dreams have furnished clues to crimes which have baffled the skill of the cleverest detectives. A remarkable case of this kind was that of Murdoch Grant, a Scottish ped- Mr, whose body was found in a lonely' mountain lake, bearing signs of great violence. The pedlar had, beyond a doubt, been brutally murdered. But for weeks all efforts to discover a clue to his slayer proved futile. A Brother's Vision. Then, when hope had almost been abandoned, a tailor, named Kenneth Fraser, came forward with a state- ment that in a dream he had seen the murder committed, and also the dead man's pack lying in u cairn of stones, near the cottage of one Htigh Mac- leod, The pack was found at the pre- cise spot indicated in the dream; Mac- leod, to whom suspicion was thus dd rected, was found in possession of a pair of the pedlar's stockings, and, on his arrest, confessed he was the mur- derTn er. the "Red Barn" case it was a dream. of Maria Martin's,,eiepmobher that led to' the discovery of the'mur- dered girl's body in a barn, and to the conviction of Corder, who had first be- trayed and then done her to death. And it was in a "vision of the night" that Mrs. Greenwood caw the assas- sins of Stoukden, a London victualler, and the house in which they lived, thus leading to their arrest and execution, When the dead body of Mr. Norway was found on the outskirts of Bodmin, bearing evidences of brutal murder, the cleverest detectives were unable to find the slightest clue to the crime, until Mr. Norway's brother, a naval officer, returned from a voyage to the East Indies, bringing a strange talo with hien. complete in Every Detail, ' On the very Bight of the tragedy, he said, he had seen in a dream the whole of the terrible ctirne, De saw his brother walking on a lonely road, and he saw two ruffians spring on hint from their 'hiding place in the beige and foully butcher him, After rob- bing the body they hastened towards THE SPHINX STRUCK I3Y CANNON BALL IN NAPOLEON IC WAR. Marvel o• f Antiquity. went to the house ofhis dream and denounced its occupants, .tames and Remnants were :found of a stone William Lightfoot, as his brother's cap, bearing the sacred asp, which murderers. And so complete in all itn doubtless covered the head of the details was his denunciation. that the Sphinx like a royal helmet, and was ruffians, struck with terror, confessed Meaning of the Structure IIas Been probably gilded. Sandstone masonry then, crime, and a few weeks later Discovered Ottly Within Recent ryas used to mance the eutlinos of the suffered the extreme Penalty of the image perfectly symmetrical, but this, law. Years. artifice was hidden from view by a No less remarkable was the case of The Germans now, threaten to wipe out Venice. Already, for a long time past, the Austrians have been trying their best to destroy by bombing raids the priceless architectural moeu- meets of the erstwhile Mistress al' the Adriatic. Such stupid barbarism has been characteristic of nearly all the wars of history—senseless destruction with- out any military object to furnish an excuse for it. When Napoleon invaded Egypt one "f his artillery officers, just for sport, fired a canon at the Sphinx. It was a good shot. A 300 -pound ball hitthe huge image square do the nose, Scat- tering its features all over the neigh- borhood. Riddle Hes Been Solved. The Sphinx WAS perhaps the most interesting of all structures of an- tiquity. Only within very recent years hes its riddle been solved, As now known, it did not represent a woman, brit Was 011 image of the God of the Morning, the Conqueror of Darkness, and 0ri this :recount it faces the rising stns. In the cotirse of many centuries the desert sands 'overflowed and covered up the lower part of the image, Which was carved out of the rock of a small and isolated hill, But not long ago achcologiets undertook to dig away the sand, thus exposing to view the forelegs std pews, its Well as a tenmpie hollowed out beneath the Sphinx. . Inscriptions on the temple Avails rei- vcalecd the (nets about the .image -- what it stood for; ihoty very ancient it teas; 011101 that the temple Was fm' 4,1, 0 porcelain -like coat of enamel of bril- liant hue that covered the entire rock - sculpture. Traces of this enamel still remain, The Sphinx's body (that of 0 crouch- ing lion) is fifty feet long. Its out- stretched forelegs are fifty feet in length. The head is thirty feet from the neck up, and -the face is fourteen foot wide, The whole figure is seeenly- Warned in ,t Dream. two feet high.No suspicion, however, attached to When King Cambyses invaded Caulfield, who was a man of respect - Egypt and made it a Persian province ability, known for his piety, until the his soldiery did all the damage they wife of an innkeeper at Portland ins could to the Sphinx. Fortunately they formed the police of a dream she had had, 1n her dream she had followed the two men, who had called at her inn for refreshment. In a lonely part of the road she had seen the taller man strike his cempenien down. mut- der him, and, after .plundering his body, bury it beside the bridge; and fin the assassin she recognized the roan of respectability and piety, Caulfield was arrested, and, after confessing itis crime, paid for it with his litre, Dreams, too, have served a still more, useful purpose in preventing crimes,; as M shown by the following, among, maty similar cases. A Mrs, Rusher-, ford, dreaming that her aged relative, Lady T.eslle, was about to be murdered by a man whom she clearly saw, tra- velled post-haste to Fife, and obt,rinn- ed permission to sleep with the old lady herself,. Mrs. Rutherford lay awake and whited. Al; last she heard the bed-roonn door -handle turned, and raiser] an alarm, The man or the diem, life' ladyship's butler, a:ttlglnt, 1 with a large lsn1fe coinceal'ed on lids free ;, l.eunds Batley and 3'emunds person, ennfessed chef. ho lard 1ntrnilde • ed 0 rob and murder hie 1331001ess. a young Irishman called hickey' whose rifled body was found buried near a bridge on the road between Portland and Carrick-on-Suir. It was known that Hickey had left Water- ford in company with another man named Caulfield, who,. after a short absence, had returned aloha, had no explosives. If the Germans ever arrive in that country as en- ' qucrors they will probably illustrate the value of kultur by blowing it up. t Public Kitchens in Germany. A1l.Gerniany has public kitchens and All kitchens are managed by women. Hamburg, the second city of the em- pire, has 100 kitchens• and half its citizens — 450,000---1'egularl.y subsist on this fare. Two hundred and thirty thousand -quart portions a day are served, adults paying 5 cents and chil- dren bar that son when they can; 141101* they cermet it is given to them Anyway, The Gazette estimates that only one-fifth pay the full price, Ex-- celnt 011 Tuesdays and Fridays, when the stew contains meet, the Hamburg menu 1s litn.!ted to "hotpot° or a mixture for every 100 quarts of l.b poutias potatoes, 2 '1-f5 porntds fat, 80 pounds yr setahles, 31 pounds sugar, 2 v,nrgei, 1 pound sat, 4 hounds