"b7d2541b-2eea-49f8-bc58-97240e799420"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers"@en . "2017-01-30"@en . "1913-02-07"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xgrandforks/items/1.0342077/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 .1 purposes. All beginners,\nsix yeatB old or ovir, will be admitted at tbe Central school -up till\nFebruary 17 upon presentation of\nhealth certificates\nFred Clark returned on Wednes\nday from a week's visit to Victoria.\nMr, Clark believes tbat the chances\nol Ibe Grand Forks Pair association\nreceiving a $5000 grant from the\ngovernment towards tbe construction\nof an exhibition building are favorable.\nLast week Miss Norma E Manly,\nwho is attending St. Ann's Academy, Victoria, passed with honors\nin hei senior examinations of music,\nIn piano she received 128 murks\nand iu theory 144 marks, and she\nwill now enter the graduating class\nof this year.\nMrs. Lloyd A. Manly returned\nthis week from Victoria, where she\nvisited her husband and daughter.\nMETEOROLOGICAL\nThe following is the minimum\nand maximum temperature for each\nday during the past week, as re\ncorded hy the government thermometer on E. It. Laws'ranch:\nTimtMMMKTK.il\nJU.ii. Mar\nFriday, 31st 12 25\nSaturday, 1st 4 28\nSundiy, 2nd 19 28\nMonday, 3rd 23 32\nTuesday, 4th 10 20\nWednesday, 5th -11 10\nThursday, 7th -5 8\nliii'hri,\nSnowfall 1.1\nThe Oranby Company Proposes to Make an Issue\nof $5,000,000\nPresident Nichols, of the Granby\nConsolidated company, bas issued a\nstatement relative to tne proposed\nissue (if convertible bonds. He says:\n\"The bonds will bear 5 per cent\ninterest and run for fifteen years. A\nmortgage covering all mining antl\nsmelting properties in British Columbia will secure the issue.\n\"Of the $5,000,000 to be tsked\nfor, there will be issued at once $1,.\n600,000, to be known as series 'A.'\nfor wbich stockholders may subscribe pro rata for cash at par pirn*\naccrued interest.\n\"The bonds will be redeemable\nafter ten years at 105 and interest.\nProvision will be made that 4 per\ncent retire annually either by purchase at not more than 110 or by\nredemption by lot at tbat figure.\n\"Tbe bonds may be converted\ninto stock at par within ten years.\nTbe $3,500,000 bonds to be placed\nin the treasury may issue as tbe directors deem advisable, for either\nproperty or cash.\n\"Final estimates are now in for\nthe new 2000-ton smelter, power\nplant, etc., indicating tbat the eost\nof the Hidden, creek property and\ndevelopment down to tbe date of\ncommencing ihiptnents will amount\nto $2,944,554.\n\"Of this, $1,324,554 has been expended, leaving $1,620,000 to be\nexpended during 1913. Against tbis\nwe bave on nand in cash and copper\nnet over and above all liabilitier,,\n$1,095,575.\n\"Development nt Hidden creek\nhas increased our reserves by an\namount which we believe is greater\nin tomlage and far greater in values\nthan the total amount so far mined\nfrom all our properties. Operations\nat Grand Forks and Pboenix have\nyielded a profit for tbe laBt six\nmonths of $7(16,054.\n\"During the first week of January\nthe Granby smelter treated 22,54**\ntons of ore, of which all but 250 tons\nwere from the Granby mines. It\nshipped 348,000 pounds of blister\ncupper in tbe same period.\"\nWill Test New Discovery\nNew York, Feb. 2,\u00E2\u0080\u0094Dr. K. E.\nFriedmann, of Berlin, who claims\nthat a serum be has discovered will\ncure tuberculosis, will sail for New\nYork frnm Liverpool today on tbe\nMauretauia. Charles F. Finlay,\npresident of the Aetna National\nbank, is bringing tbe German scientist here to teal bis discovery on 10'*\npatients, and Dr. Friedmann will lie\nhis guest during bis saty bere.\nTbe greatest difficulty tbat confronts Dr, Friedman is the fact that\nDr. Lnwranson Brown, of Saranac\nLake, and Mr Finlay are to pick\nout tbe I0o persons on whom to\nmake the tests. The embarrassment\nwill not be because of lack of material, but because ot the great number of would-be patients.\nMr. Finlay said yesterday tbat\nsince his announcement that h>\nwould give $1,000,000 to bring the\nFriedmann serum to this country,\nbe had received 3000 applications.\nand that they are coming at the rate\nof 2.--0 a day. THE SUN, GRAND FORKS, BRITISH COLUMBIA.\"\nBRITAIN'S GREAT MAN\ncBrltish Pro-Consul Rules Half Million\nSquare Miles That he Wrested\nFrom France\nSir Frederick Lugard. the ruler o.\nNigeria, is the man of whom the\nFrench publicists eulpgized as one ol\nthe greatest Britons. He has fairly\nand squarely beaten them in the race\nfor one of the greatest prizes remain\ning in Africa.\nHis career comprises matter enough\nfor a score of novels. He Is a mixture of Cllve and General Gordon\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nwlih the former's breadth of vision,\nand Gordon's fierce hatred of cruelty\nend wrong, his scorn of danger, his\ntenderness for the weak and the oppressed. He ls the only British sol-\ndicr who has calmly made war ln his\nown name. \"These operations\n(against the Emir of Sokoto) have\nBREAKING STICKS ON HEADS OF\nPRIESTS\nSIR FREDERICK LUGARD\nbeeu decided upon by Sir Frederick\nLugard,\" Mr. Austen Chamberlain. Informed Parliament nine years ago, and\nParliament, though it grumbled, yet\nacq.uiei.ed, simply because, although\nlt was dangerous precedent, hero was\na man whose lightness and justice\nwere matched only by his gallantry\nand clear-sightedness. He had his\nway and his war, the result was that\nslavery, the scourge and shame of the\nland, was smashed, after four-hundred\nyears.\nSir Frederick is a son of an Indian\nmilitary chaplain, an old Itossallon.\nHe entered the army at twenty^and\nwithin a year took part In\nthe Afghan war. He served\nin the Soudan (1885) and\nBurma campaigns, and, fighting with\nsplendid valor, was several times mentioned in despatches before gaining\nhis D.S.O. A breakdown ln health\n,-cni him, us it sent Rhodes and Dr\nJameson, to Africa. It Is a curious\nfact that Africa's sick men have been\nlater-day giants of the Dark Continent.\nSlavery no longer exists ln Nigeria.\nIt has gone, gone with the cannibal-\nIsm that Sir Frederick suppressed,\nand now he governs all, and will gov-\nem nobly.\nThe sun may shine tomorrow, but\nthat won't serve as an umbrella today.\nWaste makes haste\u00E2\u0080\u0094In the direct\nIon of tlie poorhouse.\nERUPTIONS ON FACE\nBody Covered With Running Sores.\nCould Not Sleep from Itching and\nPain. Cross and Fretful. Tried\nFifty Remedies Without Result.\nCured in Nine Days by Cuticura\nSoap and Ointment,\n30 Champagne Si., Montreal, Quebec.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n\" I hsve a flve-year-old boy who wm suffer-\nIns from what the doctor said wss \"Is\nm-atelle.\" HU body was all\ncovered with running sore*.\nThe trouble etsrled with\npimples and opened up Into\n' sores. Of course scratching\nmado lt worse. The eruption* appeared on his face -\nand disfigured him awfully,\nt CN (-s^n The boy could not sleep at\nVSS VW \u00E2\u0080\u009E|gi,t from the ilcliing and\npain, and 1 did not know what to do with\nhim. It made him cross and fretful. If I\nhavo tried ono, I have tri.-d fifty remedies\nwithout result. At last 1 got samples of\nCuticura Soap and Ointment, and after\nusing thorn Iwo days I noticed a change.\n1 then bought a full-sized cuke of Cuticura\nHoap and one box of Cuticura Ointment and\nI used to give the boy a hot bath dally\nusing Cuticura Soap freely, and then applied\nthe Cuticura Ointment. Ho hid suffered\nthree months with the horrible disease before I started to 11-.5 .no Cuticura Soap and\nOintment, an.i nine days after the boy wu\ncurad a^d has not been troubled since.\".\ntSlgned) E, Clouller, Dec. 12,1011.\nCi'!.sura Soap and Cuticura Ointment are\nsold by druggists and dealers everywhere.\nA-.niti.jlo set Is often sufficient, Liberal\naample of each mailed .ru.,' with 32-p. Skin\nHook. Address poet card Potter Drug *\nCheat. Corp., Dept. 40D, Boston, V. 8. A.\n. 930\nBuddhist Solomon Enforces .Wisdom\nby Personal Chastisement\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nA Strange Ceremony\nin Tokio, Japan, a quaint religious\nceremony is one in which priests seeking promotion have to undergo a beating with a thick stick wielded by the\nhead of their sect.\nThe ceremony was the climax ot :i\nfive days' festival near here, ln celebration of tin death of Kelznra Dais-\nhu, founder of the Soto sect, the principal subsect of the Zens, one of tlie\nmost important offshoots of Buddhism in Japan.\n. -.enlsm, which is said to be the most\nabstruse and profound of ull sects,\nalms entirely at salvation by the elimination of m-lf and Its disciples are\ncalled upon to undergo the test of\nbeating to prove their ability to pass\nthrough hardships In the cause of Bud\ndha for the development of their endurance and spirit of self-control\nFrom the fact that the Lord Abbot\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094as the head of the sect Is known\nbroke twelve stick-- ln the course ot\nthe ceremony, each stick a yard long\nand as thick as a well-developed\nthumb, it may be imagined that the\ntest was eminently practical.\nThe Lord Abbot's arrival, In a gorgeous robe, was marked by tremendous\nbeating of huge drums and the shrill\npiping of reed instruments, and when\nhe had taken his place ln the pulpit,\nthe holiest place In the temple\u00E2\u0080\u0094made\nfrom a bundle of stones\u00E2\u0080\u0094the candl\ndates advanced one by one, with\nbowed heads and submitted to the\nLord Abbot questions which had resulted from previous meditations\nThe first candidate asked: What\nwould be the color of the maple leaves\nin the mountains ln the present\nmonth?\nUp went the right arm of the Lord\nAbbot, down came the thick stick on\nthe shoulders of the candidate.\nMy son, thslr color would be redder than the tints of the flowers in\nMay. Up went the arm, down again\ncame the stick, and the candidates\nretired, gratefully thanking his holiness for the wisdom of his reply.\nThe second candidate then advanced and bowed before Lord Abbot:\nWhat, he said, ln a piping voice,\nshould we do to escape the heat ln\nsummer and the cold In winter? Dowu\ncame the stick with a smart crack.\nGo where there ls neither heat nor\ncold, neither summer nor winter.\nCandidate number three offered only\nan assertion: The moon is tn the\nblue sky.\nThe Lord Abbot laid on with increased vehemence as he thundered\nAnd water Is in a jar, and the parting\nstroke broke the stick in his hand\nOUTRAGES URGED TO\nPREVENT BIG WAR\nFrench Anarchists Iseue Beld Manifesto Against International\nConflict\n. In Paris, in order tolmt a stop to\n' war, should France become Involved\nln an international conflict, the French\nanarchists have Issued a manifesto recommending sabotage In the army.\nAs a consequence M. Jules Lecomte,\nsecretary of the Communist Anarchist Federation, has been arrested on\nthe charge of inciting to theft, pillage\nand murder. The Incriminating manifesto declares:\nThe Communist Anarchist Federation, which comprises all the anarchists In this country, Ib preparing ln\na practical manner the sabotage of the\narmy and of the mobilization ln case\nof war. We shall take advantage of\nthe dlsarrajvcaused by war to realise\ntlie social revolution and to install\ncommunism.\nThey recommend the sabotage ot locomotives, the unbolting ot rails, the\ncutting of the telegraph wires, the destruction ot bridges and tunnels and\nthe railway rolling stock.\nIt ls pointed out thac In the barracks\nmany things can be saboted, particularly the guns. Also the military\naeroplanes and dirigibles can be rendered useless and tbe horses poisoned\nLITTLE GIRL'S MAMMA SUBJECT\nOF LAW 8UIT\nCourt Asked to Decide Whether she\nis Properly Reared or Not\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nTracked by Detectives\nIn Paris, a rather strange question\nwhether a little girl of 9 had been\nwell brought up was argued solemnly\nin tbe Paris law courts on the evidence of sheriff's officers who had\nbeen set to watcb her manners at\nin Gills '\nThe' little girl. Mile. Glsele. ls the\ndaughter of a'Paris doctor. He and\nhis wife separated eighteen months\nago, and the mother, who was given\nthe custody ot the child, has since\nmarried again. Tho father petitlflhs\nto have the child given Into his care\non the ground that she Is being\nbadly brought up. The officer appointed by the father reported that\nhe sat at the next table at Dieppe.\nThe little girl leaned her elbows on\nthe table, laughed ostentatiously,\nspoke loudly and made herself remarked by her language and attitude.\nWhen her fa'.her reproached her she\nonly laughed or made faces at him.\nBut the officer for thc other side\nfound that at a Bols de Boulogne restaurant Mile. Gisele's manners were\nirreproachable, except that sbe soma-\ntimes took up her bread affd bit It\nInstead ot breaking It -with her fin-\ntiers, that she helped herself to tho\nsalad with her fingers, and occasionally forgot to wipe her mouth after\ndrinking. She handled her knife\nand fork properly, sat up well at table,\nnever raised her voice louder than a\nlittle lady ought to do and always answered her mother with a smile. When\nfinger bowls were brought Mile.\nGlsele showed her good breeding by\nmoistening her lips and lhe tips of her\nfingers and drying them with her table\nnapkin.\nTho Judges decided to take time for\nreflection.\nTaking It Easy\nHe is too lazy 10 walk upstairs.\nI suppose the coming down doesn't\nbother him.\nHe enn fall down.\nEasing the Burden\nHer spending money doesn't amount\nto more than $20 a year.\nHow In the world does she live?\nOh, they have a charge -account.\nSuffragettes hadn't thought of horrifying the men by appearing ln their\nlast year's hats.\nA really good graft Is, after all, a\nhard thing to And, and when found\nIs generally working.\nWhy angleworms were Invented ls\nno mystery lo the small boy.\nWith the development of the ages\nwe cradle neither grain nor babies\nany longer.\nHOW*8 THIS?\nWe effer fine Hundred Dollars Reward\nfor any esse o* Cr.tarrh that cannot bt\ncuipd bv Halt's Catarrh Cure.\nF. 1. CHENEY ft CO., Toledo. O.\nWe. the unde-elimed, have known F.\nJ. Cheney for *he Wat IR yeara. and believe him perfecll\" honest in ett business\ntransactions an.I financially able to carry\nout any obligation-; made by his firm.\nWALDINO. RINNAN A MARVIN,\nWholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.\nHall'e Catarrh Cure is taken Internally,\nanting directly upon the blood and mucoua surface-, of tho system. Teatimontala\naent free. Price 76 cents per bottle.\nSold by all Dnigglats.\nTake Hail's Family Fills for constipation.\nNo Danger\nCity CouBln\u00E2\u0080\u0094But Cousin Eben, you\ncan't go to the party ln those clothes.\nYour grandfather wore those at least\nforty years ago.\nCousin Ebn\u00E2\u0080\u0094That's all right. You\ndon't suppose there'll be anybody at\nthe party that saw him In them, do\nyou?\nThere ls no poisonous Ingredient in\nHolloway's Corn Cure, and it can bo\nused without danger of Injury.\nUses an Antidote\nI shouldn't think you could stand it\nto associate with Jones so much. He\nis wrong In tbe head on the subject\nof chickens, and you must know it.\nHe talks about them in |its sleep,\nthinks about them during the sermon,\nand Interrupts an Intelligent baseball\nconversation to give us the scores his\nhens made last week. He would put\nme to the bad In a week.\nYou don't k*iow how to utilize him.\nI would be tempted to use him as a\npunching bag.\nYou are too Impetuous. Now, 1\nfind Jones a valuable ally. When\nBinks comes along and starts talking\nabout his baby I wait until he has to\ndraw a breath and then mention\nchickens. That sets Jones going, and\nI slip out and let them enjoy themselves. I turn over all bores to him,\non the theory lhat like cures like.\nMlnsrd's Liniment puree Gargit In\nCows\nAdvancement\nthere Is a rhyme, you will recall,\nWhich says tne farmer feedeth all,\nI know tbat used to be the way,\nBut it ls not the case today. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nThe farmer turns the basis In.\nAnd then the monkey shines begin.\nThe fellows who adulterate\nWork early, often, soon and late,\nThey take the products to the mines,\nThey take the roots and creeping\nvines'\nThey grind up rock, and shovel.sand\nOr anything lhat cornea to hand-\nOld bricks, tunorella rime and hats\nAnd speak it softly, alley cats-\nMix with the -tuff the farmer brought,]\nIf by the government uncaught.\nAll duly seasoned to the taste.\nOn this a pure food label paste\nAnd put lt ln the market place.\nWhere folks may buy to feed their\nface,\nThe farmer legend does not lit, ,\nHe Is helped out a little bit.\nWorms feed upon the vitality if\nchildren and endanger their lives. A\nsimple and effective cure Is Mother\nGraves' Worm Exterminator.\nThey Cest Money\nHe Is get.Ing rich by saving hts\nnickels.\nThat Is the only way.\nBut too expensive.\nHow Is It?\nSee how mucb It costs hlm to gel\nthem.\nGeorge never told a single He.\nWe know that fact full well,\nOn one point nistory seems shy\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nWhat didn't William Tell?\nToo Shallow\nWhat alls him?\nA college education.\nTrying to put a quart ot knowledge\nInto a pint measure, I presume.\nHie Idee of It - .\nCltlman\u00E2\u0080\u0094You ought to know something ahout flora and that sort of\nthing. Tell me, what ls a forgetme-\nnot?\nSubbubs\u00E2\u0080\u0094Why, it's a piece ot string\nthat your wife ties around your flnger,\nwhen you go in town on an errand.\nNo Skill Required\nLitigant\u00E2\u0080\u0094Your tee is outrageous.\nWhy, it's more than three-fourths of\nwhat I recovered.\nLawyer\u00E2\u0080\u0094I furnished the skill and\nthe legal learning for your case.\nLitigant\u00E2\u0080\u0094But I furnished ine case.\nLawyer\u00E2\u0080\u0094Oh, anybody can fall down\na coal hole.\nIn Olden Daya\nOld man Aesop had just promised\nhis wife he woul.'. be home early.\nYou don't seem to put much dependence ln his promise? remarked\nthe friend.\nNo, laughed Aesop's wife; I thought\nperhaps it might be another of his\nfables.\nReliable\nCongratulations, old man. How\nmuch does your new baby weigh?\nA ton.\nQuit your kidding.\nHonestly. I am a coal dealer and\nI weighed the boy on my own scales.\nToo Easy for Him\nCan I sell you a vacuum cleaner,\nma'am? said the agent at the door.\nYou cannot, replied the lady. If\nI didn't make my husband beat rugs\nevery now and then he might forget\nthat he Is married.\nContinuous Performance\nWifey\u00E2\u0080\u0094Henry, I will have to have\nsome new clothes this spring.\nHubby\u00E2\u0080\u0094Good heavens, how long la\nthis thing to go on? That's just\nwha. you said last fall.\nIt Is distressing to think that .1\nnumber of innocent babes of today\nwill develop into United States senators..\nProved Hie Cats\nEvery one knew Jonathan Skinflint\nas a millionaire, with the exception\nso it appeared, ot Skinflint himself. .\nHe invariably wore the shabbiest ot\nclothes and is reported to have dined\none day on a couple of peas and -.,\ngrape skin.\nOne day an old friend endeavored to\npersuade the miser to dress better.\nI am surprised, he said, that you\nshould let yourself become so shabby.\nBut I am not shabby, expostulated\nSkinflint.\nOh, yes you are, replied the friend.\nRemember your father. He was al--\nwaya, neatly dressed. Ills clothes\nwere very handsome.\nSkinflint gave utterance to a hearty\nlaugh. Why, he shouted triumphantly, these clothes I've got on now\nwere father's.\nWith the Tide\nIt had been raining for twerity-four\nhours, and the ground was more like\na lake than a football field; but the\nreferee could not see his way to postpone the match.\nSurely you aren't going to make ui\nplay in this? asked the visiting captain. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nOt course you must play, declared\nthe man with the whistle. Now.\ndon't hang about. You've won the\ntoss. Which end are you taking?\nOh, well, came the reply, with a sigh\nof resignation, I reckon we'd better\nkick with the tide.\nSome Paradox\nThe aeroplane Is here to stay\nWould'st know the reason why?\nBecause\u00E2\u0080\u0094well, written records say\nThe aeroplane can fly.\nThe truth is, If It couldn't go ,\nThat it would have to, don't you\nknow.\nperrin\nGLOVES\nThe standard\nof excellence\nin kid gloves.\nTHE FARMER AND HIS\nGRAIN\nThe only sure and satisfactory -way tn whioh the Western Farmer\nran secure the highest possible market value for his wheat, oats, barley ana\nflax Is by shipping It by the carload to Fort William or Port Arthur, or tm\nDuluth If cars cannot be got for the other terminals (loading It If possible\ndirect Into the.car over the loading platform so as to save elevator charges.\nand dockage) and employing a strictly commission firm to handle and dlsi\n]>m_\u00C2\u00AB of lt.\nWe continue to act aa the Farmers' Agents solely on a commission basis.\nWe are not trackbuyers and we never buy the Farmers' grain on our own\naccount, but look after and dispose of the grain entrusted to us, as ths\nagents of those who employ us, and It Is our desire and endeavor to give\neveryone the very beat service possible. We make liberal uuvuncea against\ncar shipping bills, and will also carry the jrrnln for a time under advances al\nn moderate commercial rate of Interest, if considered advltmuie. We Invite\nall Farmers to write to ua for shipping Instructions and market Informat.on.\netc. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nThompson Sons & Company\n700-703 V. GRAIN EXCHANGE WINNIPEG, CANADA\nGRAIN COMMISSION MERCHANTS\nHouses\nWithout\nChimneys\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\70Useethem\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2s* often\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nbuilders' and.\ncontractors''\nshacks \u00E2\u0080\u0094the\ntemporarybuild-\nihgs for every;\nsort of purpose.:\n [Almost invariably they are;\nwarm and comfortable in*\nweather by the\n-am^am a&g\u00C2\u00A3S*}\nnaces or ordinary ^^ \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nStOVet CannOt be USCd, Jmm\u00E2\u0080\u0094mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nor wherever ordinary heat is not sufficient\u00E2\u0080\u0094there you\nfind need for one of these handy Perfection Heaters.\nIf you've!a house without a chimney, or,a cold\nspare room, or a bailey furnace, you will appreciate the\nPerfection Heater.\nMade with nickel triramhigi (pitta Heel or enameled turquoiia-\nWuedrame). Ornamental. Inexpensive. Latts for yeara.\nBaittjr moved from place to place. At dealers everywhere.\nTHE IMPERIAL OIL GOMPANY, Limited\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2WINNIPEG ST. IOHN\nMONTREAL TORONTO HALIFAX THE SUN, GRAND FORKS, BRITISH COLUMBIA.\n^y\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0TRENCH GUNS FACTOR\nIN BALKAN VICTORIES\n.float Military Men Exeept Germane\nConclude That Prance haa Beit\nArtillery In the. World\nThe French during the time.of the\nSusso-Japanese campaign Frenchmen\nBacked the wrong horae, and the humiliation ot their allieB was a sore\ndisappointment to them. to the Balkan, war, however, French sympathies\nBave from the Btart been with the al-l\nHed states, and their victories have**\nBeen .hailed with Jubilant satisfaction.\n\u00C2\u00BBut apart trom the pleasure felt by\nFrenchmen at the successful efforts\nof the llftle powers to overthrow the\n,Turk', there ls a national pride bora\nof the conviction that the Bulgarians\nsnd the Servians and the Greeks have\nvanquished the troops of the sultan\nBecause they learned the art of war\nan French military colleges and fought\nwith French cannon.\nWhen, further, lt is remembered\nthat at Kirk Klllsse and Lule Burgas\nlhe French guns were matched against\nSerman artillery, it will be conceded\nthat the crushing defeat inflicted on\nthe Turks at these battles Is some\nJustification for French complacency.\nThe Balkan war has been very largely\na question of guns, and the duel between the French artillery of the allies and the German artillery of the\nTurks has resulted in the triumph of\nthe cannon made at Creusot.\nThe selection of French guns by tho\narmies of the allies was not due to accident or hazard. Those responsible\nfor the war material, which was to decide the future ot the Balkans knew\nthat they could tako no chances, that\niheir very existence was at stake, and\nso, after testing the material of all\nthe ordinance manufacturers of Europe they came to the conclusion that\nthe Schneider guns were the most\nsuitable for their' purpose. That Is\nwhy General Savoff, who recognized\n.he-Bulgarian army, selected the splendid-75-milllmeter French guu.to annihilate the Turk, and the war ministers\nof Servla and Greece did the same.\nMost of their material ls comparatively modern and bears the date of 1901,\n1905, and 1907.\nMoBt military men\u00E2\u0080\u0094Kaiser Wll-\nHelm's officers excepted\u00E2\u0080\u0094openly admit\nthat the French have the best artillery In the %>rld. It ls especially\nsuitable for a campaign In the hilly\ncountry of the Balkans, because of its\nlightness. The.nature of the terrain,\nwhich has been reddened by the blood\nof-Bulgarians and Turks, precludes the\nuso of heavy, cumbersome guns, and\nthat ls why the light, handy field and\nmountain guns of the allies have\nproved Invaluable. Foreign attaches\nwho have followed the operations ln\nthe Balkans during the last few weeks\nire at one ln their admiration of the\nrapidity, accuracy and murderous effect of the French-made guns,\nA German artillery officer, who witnessed the battle of Lule Burgas, declared that the day was won not by\nthe rifle fire of the Bulgarians, but\nby their cannon, the batteries placing,\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2hell after shell with astonishing rapidity at polnti five feet apart. The\ngunners fired with automatic precision\nand the officer added that he was con-\nIinced that one of the most Import-\nnt results of the present war would\nbe a modification of the German artillery. Krupp guns, he declared, can\nneither fire so rapidly nor wjth so\nmuch precision as the murderous\nCreusot guns.\nBut lt le the special pneumatic\nbrake that gives the man who serves\nthe French-made artillery his greatest\nadvantage. When the shot ls flraJ\nand the recoil take.! - place, the g in\nco-nes back In a strait lit line, and Is\nready to be redlscharged Immedlat.-ly\nThat ls lo ray, once the gunner lias\n(tot the range ii\u00C2\u00BB ._<*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 no further Iron.\nUle. * He BC.trally gets the rang* 'n\nthe flrst thrca nhots, and he can ko>r-\nthe gun going at lhe rate of tr>*