The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-19
Sins Of MONKS
were PUNISHED
Legend May Possibly Have
Been Founded on Fact
Unusual Lake Formed.

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oS the earth in a night in punishment
for the sins of the monks, appears
now very possibly ounded on fact.
The legendary occurrence has just
been repeated on the reputed site of
the ancient monastery nea Rheine,
but this time without involving mod
ern sinners.
Fifteen acres OF a wooded Moor.
Still called the Hoy Lake" in COM
1-emorat:on OF the waters beneath
which monks and monastery dis:ip-
peared and which in turn slowly
eilted up first into marsh aud then in
to moor have dropped out OF sight.
Or the spot is now d lake thirty feet
deep. with only the top of the high
er trees appearing o the surface.
The legend speaks of a rumblins
erbterranean noise which warne,. the
population of the cate overtakins the
monks, and the sam sound. accom-
panied by a noticeable trembling of
the earth. during the night of AEri,
Is carried the news of the new WON
der to h villages around the moo-.
When the spot was visited the next
morning it was found that fifteen
acres had sunk bodily some forty
feet, h subsistence occurring so
evenly and gradually hat birches and
pines We're still erect in the soil.
though already we'll below the level
of the surrounding land. Streams Of
water We're pouring from the almost
vertical sides of the cavity. which
loon filled to the depth of about lif.
teen feet and then. after an interval.
t. about thirty feet. The flow of wa
ter still continues. but the waters
seerl to have found a concealed ont
let, for h level remains fairly con-
slant.
Thousands OF sightseers are Visiting
the miracle" including many geolog-
lists, who have already advanced their
explanations of the phenomena. Tha
country here is underlaid with beds
of limestone. which, the g%eologis-s as
sumo. is subject to erosion by strong
underground streams Of water. Into
a cavern thus formed an area of stone
corresponding to the new lake has
presumably fallen and the present
sinkagc may be only the beginning Of
further subsistence.
Anton Anton Won Werner. Ger
many's celebrated painter of battle
scenes and honorary director of tho
Royal Art School. contributes this
month an interesting sideiight on the
history of international relations dur
ing the recent European crisis. illus
tratine the precautions taken in Ger
many to avoid sharpening the sitila-
ton.
a withdrawal from exhibition OF some
of Werner's paintings for political
reasons have been in circulation.
These have now been confirmed by
the painter himself, with the addition
that the withdrawal vas at the re.
quest Of the Foreign Office. which
Vas anxious to avoid anything which
might stir up hostility in France.
Last autumn Werner was invited to
participate in the jubilee loan expo
sition of German art, to be held to
celebrate the twenty-ifth anniversary
OF the accession of Emperor WILTON
to h throne. He placed at the dis
position of the organizers a number
of his historic pictures, dealing with
scenes of the F'ranco-Prussian war
and with events in later German his
tory up to the death of General Count
Won Moltke, the military genius of
that conflict. At the same time he
suggested. in view of the strained po-
litical conditions at the time. INC the
fact that the pictures dealt with mar
tial scenes of perhaps provocative ma
ture. that the director secure the per-
mission Of the Emperor to the exhibit
ton of the paintings.
He was told in reply that at the re-
quest OF the Foreign Office the pic
lures would not he exhibited. The
hre-eating section of the German
press naturally RACES at this inter-
ference with German art, but the ac-
ton of the Foreign Office is generally
~applauded by the public as we'll as by
Prof. o Werner himself.
Germans usually attribute to Amer
leans a craze for everything that is
big, but Germany makes some things
bigger than any other country in the
world. When the 1mperator starts on
her trial trip she will be the biggest
steamer on the ocean. Moreover, the
ma work on the mammoth vessel has
neen done with the biggest crane in
the world. which was completed
abou the beginning Of April.
Hamburg broke the worlds records
IN cranes twenty-five years ago, but
1t later lost this prominence. Now a
German firm has built there a crane
Of 275 short tons within 174 feet.
But its working reach is even greater
than this, for the movable arm is it.
SELF surmounted by a small crane that
can lift ten tons at a. distance of $50
Feet from the center. Thus. for
weights OF that size. the crane has a
total sweep of $50 feet. The machine
is operated by electricity. and only
two men are required to serve it. The
chief operator in the central booth is
provided with a s%earchlight so as to
enable him to work at night.
German manufacturers of cranes
claim that their machines excel those
made in other countries, and that of
l4O big cranes in the world, more
than half We're built by a single Ger
man firm.
At a time when Germany is about
to make a big increase in her army,
IT Is OF interest to note the economic
effect of the present peace footing up
on a typical peasant family. This as
pect of Germany's military burden has
been made the subject of investiga.
and from reports on nearly 1000
peasants families in Bavaria. it is
seer that every soldier costs his fam.
lily at least s23S during the two wears
OF service in the army. AS the nav
OF the men does not suffice for their
needs, their parents have to send
them money and gifts that average
about $36 a year. Besides this, the
peasant nus hire a farm laborer as
a substitute for his son, which means
a further expense of $50. These fg.
'iTas appear all the more serious when
70 cmembered that aver half of the
$ included in the investigation
ed the country at least fou.
5 each, while the number went
t-sn as eight or nine in some fam.
A striking feature Of the situation
isH virtual ruin Of some small,
farms by the emoval Of the young
n to do their term of service. Such
cases are by no means rare. One
peasant who supplied five soldiers
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