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THE MONROE, ADVERTISER.
. VOL XXXIX.
Seeking.
Over the waters wide,
It'irne bjr the stormy
« ome I to thee;
Where the bright foam l<*afe high,
Hplte at the frowning sky,
1 ■_* ijfji j jtt t*’&.
ter,
JifftStillg till* <l
Thro' rough or ailing mi-’j,
(tome I, my lov to thee.
Over the bound e-s uca*,
Waft by the evening breeze,
Far t<> the West;
Where the bright sun still g'e iinv
Wrapp'd in lis g iMcu brains,
Gradled t< > rest;
Where the ayo strains to i
Bright gates of liberty, 4
Over the distant sea
t ome I, my love, to t'n*%
Over the midnight ile • p,
Orivr.ird my courv*. I’ll Itwp,
H'*eklng for thee ;
Love will my |iath direct,
Love w;li m y hark grot eel,
From danger!free.
Then when the morning light
Hli'iii o'l-r tin' s!j i>! night
With hope fuel constancy
Mill will I •ek for thee.
Toss'. i ijy the wuvm of strife
< )ver iho h 'it of Jlfn,
1 icatli in the go;il;
M lien fears my breast unman,
Only your pronene j can
L ighten my soul,
Nfil# your h vtiK vo|f*o f lif*rip
fulling tlti> wan i’rer near,
8UII will I •.■I; for thee,
Love thro’ eternity.
Detroit Free Proes,
THE LOCKED STORE.
BY CLARA J. DENTON.
^ ill Burnham sat in tho silent
store and yawned. How dull it was!
Ho had not had a customer for nearly
an hour, and the loneliness and inac¬
tion were becoming unbearable. He
looked at his watch and counted the
hours since iiis father had gone away
leaving him in charge of his business.
Immediately on liis return, which he
hoped wutfld bo soon, lie mennt to
board one of the electric cars that
whirled invitingly by the door, for, of
course it was too hot to think to walk
Thun ho fell to wondering
how his r could endure hour after
hour. n> lay after day, tin is beggar!
luck of business. Yet he was always
1/opetul, always saving to inquirers:
“Oh, things will brisk up alter a
AY Idle."
“H ill rose, and walking to the door
looked up the street at a store in the
next block, where tho people were
busily coming and going.
“.r ust as I thought-, ” he muttered,
“Ziliuski and his clerks are so busy as
beavers, where here l sit idle. I told
Father a store in this pnrt of the town
among the Poles would have no chance
while Ziliuski was so near. He ought
to have known what a people they are
for hanging together, and, of course,
they’ll all pntronize their own country¬
man. But Father only laughed aud
said, ‘boys didn’t knoiv it all.’ He
thou ;lit they’d buy of him because he
keeps better goods than Zilinski ami
sells some things a few cents cheaper.
But not a rap do they care for that.
So hero we are losing money every
day, while Zdinski is getting rich. I’ll
talk to Father this very night and see
if I can’t persuade him to move to
some better stand as soon as this
month is up. If lie doesn’t, I may as
xvell give up going to college this fall.
I’ll have to go to work instead, to got
my board and clothes.”
Vi ith a frown on liis face he turned
away from the door aud walked to the
other end of the store. Here liis eye
fell upon a book that he had not read,
ami, taking it up, he was soon above
and beyond all liis annoyances.
He had been reading thus uninter¬
rupted for more than an hour when
he hoard quick footsteps ou the board
sidewalk in front of the store. He
looked up.
“How can any one run like that on
this hot day?" he thought.
In a moment a bareheaded Polish
woman dashed into the store. Her
face ay as white, her eyes wild Avith
fright.
“Oli, gmle boy,” she began in
broken English, “ring der tel’phone
on and up der doctor g-'t, mine leetle
schild vot to mine neighbor polongs
ish droAvuded dado in der sishteru
V ready.”
Will sprang to his feet, his foeo as
white as the woman’s
“What doctor?’ he asked.
“D it make no deference a’ready. ”
N\ ill gave the telephone a frantic
ring as the woman darted aw«y.
“Here,” he called, “come back and
tell me the name and number where
tho child is.”
The woman stopped, gave the re¬
quired information and then dashed
uyyuv again.
But another quarter of an hour
before Will could eatch a doctor
his office, and even he was just
to set out to visit tome very
FORSYTH. MONROE ( TY. OA, TUESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER It, 1814.
eases, anil could o&lj premia? “to get
there an Boot a£ pnasib
XV ill fang off tho telephone, and
thriuting ULs Kii* . <fi- »p in his pock
ef m thought.
. , customer* . _
! >r some time, wlmt if I should lock
up the store? That doctor will not
see the child for an hour, at least, and
by that time” A cold chill ran over
him as he thought of tho probabili
ties.
“It is only the possibility of losing
a little money, anyway,” he thought,
and then with one hand he snatched
the door-key from its nail, with the
other picked up his hat, and in an¬
other moment the door was locked,
and lie, who had but just deelur d
himself unequal to the slight exertion
of walking home, was racing up tho
street like a runaway horse.
Who.; he had gone a block or two,
lie saw that there would be no trouble
>n finding tho house. He had but to
follow tho crowd of women; the men
were, of course, ull away at their
work.
When he reached the door tho
throng, with tho inborn deference of
foreign women for the “lords of cre¬
ation,” immediately gave him the
“right of wav,” and he passed swiftly
through the perspiring crowd to the
narrow room where they had laid the
child.
The mother, grandmother and three
aunts surrounded the bed loudly be¬
wailing the loss of tho little one, for
it was to all appearance dead.
“Give me room here,” said Will,
peremptorily, as he tore off his coat,
vest and linen cufthit may bo that
I can do something for her.”
Eor the next hour he worked rapidly
and incessantly.
The room was unventilated and un¬
tidy, but Will, whoso fastidiousness
was a by-word among his friends, for¬
got these minor trials in liis desper¬
ate light for a life.
At last the little breast heaved
slightly, then again and again, the
eyelids fluttered faiutly and soon the
breathing became firm and regular.
“I here,” said be, rising from Id tn.sk
n nd wiping the peispiratioa f his
b.wv , ‘‘G our litue gill “is all right,
now, Mrs. Poplinski.
At this junction there was a move¬
ment in the outer room, and a mo¬
ment later the doctor came bustling
in ; he glanced at the child then at the
coatless and perspiring boy.
“Well, young fell ow, is that your
work?” lie asked. “I expected to find
the poor little thing beyond help; but
1 couldn't get here any sooner, and I
must say I couldn’t have done a better
job if I had. You have simply saved
the poor little creature’s life.”
While the doctor was feeling the
child’s pulse nnd giving orders for
its future care, Will gathered up his
belongings and hurried out, breaking
away from the throng of happy women
who were determined to load him with
their broken thanks and praises. But
he dared not let them detain him an¬
other moment, for he had looked at
his Avatch when the doctor came and
was dismayed at the flight of time.
“What if Father has returned while
I have been away?” he asked himself
with a sinking heart, for the key to
the store w as iu his pocket.
He Avent back quite as rapidly as he
had gone away, and ay - hen he reached
the dour, flushed and perspiring, his
father was nowhere visible, but two
Avomen stood there waiting for admis¬
sion.
“Of course the only customers of
the afternoon Avould be sure to come
AY-hile I Avas away,” he thought, as he
let them in aud waited upon them.
When he was once more alone he
sat down to rest, thinking all the
while of his father’s possible displeas
ure Avhen ho learned of the locked
store.
“Surely he will excuse me under
the circumstances,” he said to himself
again ami again.
Yet, despite this self acquittal, he
dreaded the confession that he must
make when his father returned. But
when it was time to close the store for
the day Mr. Barnham had not yet ap
peared, and Will went home with an
anxious heart. At the door of their
home, however, he found his father
waiting Avith outstretched hands.
“I have heard all about it, he said,
before Will could utter a word. “I
came through the Polish settlement on
niv wav home, an 1 they ure doing
• nothing over there but talking of the
i j wav Will Barnham ave 1 the Pop
linski baby.”
“But I had to close the store to do
it. That’s the first time I ever ran
a wav from the work that you left for
i me to do,” he added, proudly.”
“You did just right—just right,”
- i\d Mr. Buruli un warmly. “Of course
Casabiunca-like fidelity is all right un
ilt-r certain circumstances; bit l al*
ways Said I d be ashamed of a boy who
didn't have sense enough to distia
guish between the lesser aud ’
greater duty, bo I think your go
judgment is as much tc» be comineiui
e.l as your kindness of heart.”
I„ t. A the _ eager rt„cuss,.,u t of ,* the aff _ .
Lv the whole family that followed.
\\ ill forgot that he had meant to ad- (
vance arguments in regard to moving,
Hut his logic and fluency were spared,
for, beginning with the following
morning, a great change came over
Mr. Baruham’s business.
The Polish patronage turned to his
door, entirely deserting Zilinski, thus
giving both dealers a genuine sur
prise.
Mr. Barnham was obliged to hire
two clerks, while Ziliuski was soon
glad to move away to a more fallow
field.—Independent.
Faces aid Fallings.
It appears probable that the tailor’s
distinctive type of face may have been
partially created by his habit of work¬
ing his jaws concomitantly with liis
shears. Let ai^- one watch a person
cutting a tough material with scissors,
and he will see that the lower part of
the face wags in rhythmic and sponta¬
neous unison with the blades. Shep¬
herds and farm laborers who join
sheep-sheering gangs certainly acquire
a different expression w’hile engaged
in this kind of work.
The cast of countenance by which
one so easily recognizes a groom is
partially explicable from the fact that
the muscles which close the jaw and
compress the lips are always called
into play when we are asserting our
will over that of a horse. Nearly all
jockeys aud other horsy men have a
piculiar set of the mouth and chin,
but I have been unable to distinguish
any special characteristic abou-t tho eye
or upper part of the face.
It is instructive to compare the vis¬
age of the ruler of horses with that ol
the ruler of men. The horseman’s face
shows command in the mouth,the drill
sergeant’s in the mouth and tho eye.
The last is undoubtedly the most effec¬
tive instrument iu exacting obedience
n,m mipjTft) SDOOieS
e oi
mty, that element of coarseness which
is discernible in the countenances of
some men and women who have much
to do with horses. The higher and
nobler method of expressing authori¬
ty is outweighed by the lower and
more animal one.
Bismarck as a Duelist.
Bismarck was a student at Gottin¬
gen in 1832 and 1833, where his skill
in fence Avon for him the surname
“Achilles the invulnerable.” In three
terms he sought twenty duels and re¬
ceived only a single Avonnd, of wdiich
the scar on his lower jaw near the lip
is still perceptible; but as this was
caused by his adversary’s blade flying
from the hilt, it avus contrary to the
code, so that his reputation for invul¬
nerability remained technically unim¬
paired. Indeed, the university au¬
thorities forbade him to fight certain
projected duels, on pain of expulsion,
aud a month later he was sentenced to
three days’ incarceration for a like
offense. His first duel was with an
Englishman, who had spoken iu de¬
rision of the many petty States of
Germany. With an American student
lie made a bet that Germany would be
politically united in twenty years.
The wager was twenty-five bottles of
champagne, to be drunk in the coun¬
try of the wiuner. After the lapse of
this score of years, in 1853, Bismarck
was prepared to cross the sea in order
to pay the bet, Avhen he learned that
the American had died, and adds:
“The name he bore did not presage a
long life—Coffin.”—Argonaut.
M'ooil Stronger Than Steel.
Cast iron weighs 444 pounds to the
cubic foot, and a one-ineh square bar
Aviil sustain a weight of 16,500 pounds;
bronze, weight 525 pounds, tenacity
36,000; Avrouglit iron, weight 480,
tenacity 50,000 ; hard “struck” steel,
weight 490, tenacity 78,000; alnnii
mini, Areight 168, tenacity 26,000.
We are accustomed to think of metals
ns being stronger than wood, and so
they are, generally speaking,' if only
pieces of the same size be tested. But
when equal weights of the two mate¬
rials are compared, it is then found
that several varieties of wood are
stronger than ordinary steel. A bar
of pine just as heavy as a bar of steel
an inch square will hold up 125,000
pounds; the best asfi 174,000 pounds,
and some hemlock 200,000 pounds.
Wood is bulky. It occupies ten or
twelve tim£s the spacs of steeL The
best steel eastings made for the United
States Navy have a tenacity of 65,000
to 75,000 pounds to the square inch.
j By solidifying such casting.-* under
great pressure, a tensile strength of
SO,Odd to |5l),000 pouuds may be
obtained. -=-iailw*y Review,
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WAR'S DKADLIKST XYEAt*ON AND
I ITS POSSIBILITIES.
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Pr-tr'e'-tUe ('iTabbT* ^ ,
H fJelences Destroying \ 31 '
of Three
NIen-of-XV ir
y 7HE the great air guns that threw into
f’T an acre of the Atlantic
Ocean last week are perhaps,
says the New York Sun, help
Mother cause than that of war,
iting their involuntary share in
ig the world along toward that
|of I Congresses friendly quiet believe in which should the
we
The knowledge of the power
ffeadful destructiveness that each
| Hlnprovement Sito gives causes even
4-- ‘lows hesitate hateful while to the the name people. of j I
Hwements more j
in explosives aud in
and big arms have done this
*m$\ {for the peace of the world, and
Quarter of a ton of dynamite
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TP 'OR JUST AFTER THE DISCHARGE.
kJ-Jt mile and a half out to sea,
n - ,ced with an accuracy that has
t vr.| aniy slightly throughout the
vs come to aid in the work of
abc 4 ng war.
jggon |r comes for out New of Yorkers these tests that the
a
hos ! hip is not likely to enter their
har 1 £ the guns at Sandy Hook
\vi j xt< { equal to keeping out a for¬
eign vi jj|el, then a battery of the guns
stat i a i at Coney Island and at Rock
iiwi - Ci ild add strength that should
promotj prove lvincible. The owners and
ss of the nevv guns maintain
that on of the projectiles is capable
of destr ying three men-of-war. Seven
bay years a i an experiment in the lower
ga-i- I a measured indication of the
destru j ye ness of one of these pro
jecti vesselkSAf jrkeu it was discharged at a
\n old wooden schooner
which h .1 1 pen used in the coast sur
vey chored about 1864 yards
frou- afiiyi ite. An eight-inch
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fifty-five which if/ | somewhat pounTls” | i^one- ene,
more
tenth of /he strength of the jlEojectiles
used in fhe tests last week. The gun,
moreover, had not been brought to its
present state of completion, Ithough
these experiments attracted dynamite. public at¬
tention to the use of
The schooner was ninety feet Hong
and w’as anchored bows on. The first
shot from the gun at Fort Lafayette
fell short, and the second jxploded
about ten yards from the vessel, broke
off the mainmast and blew up a part
of the deck. The third projectile ex¬
ploded under tho schooner and lifted
her out of the water. She seemed to
rise slowly into the air and then broke
into two parts directly amidships.
Two more projectiles completed her
demolition and left only a mass of
floating wreckage. This was the re¬
sult of the experiments made when
the gun was incomplete, and. the ex¬
plosive in the projectile only a small
proportion of the amount used now.
But it indicated something of what
might be expected w.ien one of these
projectiles and a vessel should come
into close quarters.
The news comes from Washington
that the results obtained by these last
tests, and more especially, tbe great
accuracy with which projectiles have
been placed, have attracted the ad¬
miration of the ordnance experts in
both services. The believe that the
success of the gun will lead to its
adoption for purposes of coast de¬
fence, and the protection of those
coastwise cities for which the Fortifi¬
cation Board has recommended a gen-
“Each time the conclusion has been
more or less favorable. Each report,
however, has stated that the accuracy
of the guns leaves much to be desired.
It is manifest that the accuracy of a
gun is its most important quality, and
without a satisfactory degree of ac¬
curacy nil other advantages are of
minor importance. The difficulty iu
the pneumatic guns appears to centre
in the main valve which admits the
air to the gun. At all ranges except
the maximum the successful working
of the gun demands that this valve
should open and close in an exceed¬
ingly short time, probably a small
fraction of a second. The difficulties
encountered in accomplishing thishax'e
not been overcome. The department
has already expended $30,000 upon ex¬
periments with these guns without any
decided improvement. Without en¬
tering further, at this time, into the
merito of the system, the bureau rec¬
ommends that further experiments
be deferred until after the installation
at Sandy Hook of the fifteen-inch
guns noxv in course of construction for
the War Department. .-7 a these guns
the company which promises to overcome
the difficulties exist in those of
the Vesuvius.”
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THE FUEL CALIBRE PROJECT TLE.
eral policy of defence against attacks
from foreign fleets. The army ord
nance officers believe that these tests
have proved beyond doubt the dyna
mite gun Avill be a most significant
factor in the harbor defene of our
cities, and that, however stron. fortifi
cations may be, they will not prove
completely adequate without one of
these "
guns.
There was for several year-in Wash
ington a prejudice against the gun
among naval experts, and the failure
of the guns on the dynamite cruiser
Vesuvius to work satisfactorily in the
exhaustive tests which have been given
since the cruiser has been completed
has increased the lack of confidence in
fhem. The army has alwavs con¬
tended that one of these guns, scien
tifieally manipulated, was capable of
greater destructive power than three
of the heaviest pieces of ordnance
manufactured for coast defense. Gen
eral Flagler, Chief of Ordnanee of the
Armv t 1 maintained * i A that J 1 1 As-hile 1 'A
Dag
there was great development yet to
be secured in perfecting the dynamite
gun, sufficient progress ^____ had __________ already
been made to guarantee its adoption
with other ordnance In the protection
of great cities. Captain Sampson,
Chief of the Ordnance Bureau ot the
Navy, has alwavs been in som- doubt
as to the expediency of adopting the
gun for use in the navy, but he be
lieves that the disadvantages which
have been encountered, mounting ^ „„„ one
of the guns on a war ship, c •ill bt
readily removed ovith a stationary
platform on -bore, and that .11
J*® ou lti e8 Which, prevent its effective
nse can readily be reduced to a mini¬
mum. The recent results obtained
at Sandy Hook are regarded by ord
nance officers here as indicating that
the use of dynamite in modern war
fate has become precticelly indue
P-nsable to the proper protection of
harbors, and they now admit that
whatever doubt was formerly held
as to the impossibility of securing
range and accuracy has been removed
by the apparent facility with which
the projectiles were discharged by the
fifteen-inch gun last week,
The navy was the first to take up
the question of using dynamite ex¬
pelled from tubes by compressed air
for the destruction of a ship. Early in
1880 the department ordered the con¬
struction of a vessel which was to be
fitted with three dynamite tubes
mounted forward stationary and aimed
by the ship's rudder. The vessel was
to have great speed, and it was be
Heved that she would “revolutionize
warfare.” A favorable report on the
system had been made by tho Pneu¬
matic Gnu Board, and the vessel was
built by the Cramps at a cost of nearly
$400,000. The first trial with the guns
occurred in 1889. Three shots were
fired for range, and fifteen for endur¬
ance. The report of the Board says
that no attempt was made to secure
accuracy of practice. The trials be¬
ing simply to meet the contract re¬
quirements as to the rapidity of fire,
and the capacity of the system to
maintain that rapidity for a given time.
After considering the report, the de¬
partment ordered a second trial, the
projectile to be used being a sub-cali¬
bre containing a 204-pound charge of
gun cotton and fitted with mechanical
fuses. The result showed that a shell
containing 200 pounds of gun cotton
or other high explosive could be
thrown at least one mile by each of
the dynamite guns constituting the
vessel’s armament. After considering
maturely all the tests on theVesuvius,
the Chief of Ordnance reports on the
value of dynamite guns on war ships
as follows;
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SIDE VIEW OF THE RIG IC GTTN.
joints are provided in this pipe at the
pintle and at the trunnions, which al¬
low the gun to be moved with free¬
dom xvithout breaking the continuity
of the pipes and allowing any escape
of air. A large valve near the breech
controls the admission of air into the
barrel. The opening and closing of
this valve are automatic and complete¬
ly under the control of the gunner.
A feature of the pneumatic system
is the ability of the gunner to change
the range without changing the eleva¬
tion of the gun by controlling the
amount of compressed air that escapes
at each discharge, When the dis
charging lever is pulled the large
valve at the breech opens and remains
open a sufficient time to allow a cer
tain quantity of air to escape into the
barrel; then the valve closes before the
projectile leaves the muzzle, cutting
off the escape of the air and retaining
in the reservoir all that was not need¬
ed in propelling the projectile. The
length of time the valve remains open
is under control of the gunner, and
by regulating the amount of air th,at
enters the barrel he rsgulates the
energy imparted to the projectile, and
so can change his range Avitliout
changing the elevation of the gun.
to
this establishment of the effectiveness
of dynamite as an ammumtion, prob¬
ably as interesting a lesson of the re¬
cent tests is to be drawn from the use
of compressed air in the guns, The
officers say that for many reasons it
would be impossible to use powder.
Perhaps the most important is that it
would detonate so sensitive an explo
sive as dynamite. The 36,000 pounds
pressure to the superficial inch, which
is about the average force of powder,
would cause the projectile to explode
before it left the gun. Another ne
cessity which renders the use of pow
der impossible is the importance of
keeping the gun cool. Powder would
heat it to such an extent that thedy
namite would explode. As it is, the
pneumatic gun is made cooler by every
introduction of compressed air. If
powder were used the shell of the pro
jectile would have to be \*ery much
heavier than it is now, and there
would be less space for the explosive,
The largest projectile now weighs 1120
pounds, and about forty-five per cent,
of this weight is in the exjilosive,
which in these large projectiles weighs
500 pounds,
The must, moreover,
expelled at a uniform rate, The first
shock of the explosion of powder, di
minishing until its force ceases, would
cause the projectile to explode, while
an explosion is prevented by the un
varying pressure of compressed air,
which 1 ’ 1 maintains ___ . 1 _ 1 . 1 .. ihn the nn same w, /\ rate—about tm r\ _n ♦
1000 to the inch—throughout the gun.
Another reason given by the company
for the use of compressed air is that
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the force of powder is likely to be
variable, it is not always uniform,
and for that reason greater accuracy
is obtained by the use of compressed
air, which they say they can be cer
tain will always produce an exact re
suit, In addition to these ad
vantages, as the company ’no regards
. them, there is, of course, ______ no dirt dirt pr or
smoke or necessity •’ for scrubbing out
the gun after it • has ■ been used. \
'fhe idea of using compressed air as
a substitute for powder is said to have
originated with a Toledo mechanic
named Meffort, who had made a study
of explosives. The pneumatic gun of
to-day is said to have developed from
an idea suggested to Meffort by nr
rangement of a piece of gas pipe u u.l
roughly made dynamite torpedo. He
succeeded in throwing his projectile
by means of an improvished mortar,
but could not make it explode more
than once or twice in a half dozen ef¬
forts. This was due to the fact that
his fuses were not adequate. Since
that time Meffbrt’s idea has been im¬
proved upon from time to time until
the present gun was devised, and
members of the company say that the
latest tests have suggested possible
improvements in tho details of the
gun.
The gun and carriage weigh in the
aggregate fifty-two tons, but the gun
can be moved by the turn of a wheel
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THR PROJECTIIjR STARTS ON ITS WAV.
or aimed in any direction. A tele¬
scope stands by tho gun, and through
this the gunner places his aim. The
gun is moved by electricity. The
compressed air is conveyed from the
engine rooms by means of pipes to
wrought iron and steel reservoirs,
which are in chambers under tho gnu
platform. From these reservoirs the
air is conducted by moans of large
pipes up through tho carriage to the
trunnions, and from the trunnions
through a large casing surrounding
the barrel to the breech.
The system of
always stocked with compressed air is
a simple one. At each discharge of
the gun the air pressure in the reser¬
voir falls according to the adjustment
of the valve. If the standard pressure
in the reservoir is 1000 pounds to the
square inch, one shot may reduce this
pressure to 900 or 850 pounds, or any
pressure not usually less than 800
pouuds. By drawing from a storage
reser\ r oir beside the engine rooms,
Avaich contains air at a pressure of
more than 1000 pounds to the square
inch, the pressure in the gun reser¬
voir may be speedily restored. This
is, in brief, the compressed air system
which the company uses.
The system of loading the gun has
been arranged so that there is no dan
ger to be feared from the rapid haud
ling of the projectiles. The projec¬
tiles ar&brought from the magazines
in trays, which T’Kls are run onto a loading
carriage. carriage runs on a
circular -track aroilnd the ,gnn and
brings the projectile into.position for
, loading. ,, A . windlass . is used r for r orc '
-
ing the projectilefinto the bore of the
gun. It requires tour men to load
the gun with a sub-calibre projectile,
while the full calibre projectiles,
which weigh as much as 1129 pounds,
require six men. The company’s
managers say they hax-e never had an
accident.
Captain Rapieff, the designer of the
gun tested as recently, says that the
projectiles can easily be thrown upon
the deck of a A’essel. There are two
j kinds of projectiles n&ed ^
! one, termed a full calibre, fits the bore
j closmy; the other, a sub-caiibre, L
considerably smaller than the bore,
j and ana is is made maae to to fit nr snugly snugiy at at tbe me ends enus
j by a system of circular blocks, which
are loose and which fail into the water
i a few hundred feet from the mouth of
j the gun after the discharge. All of
the projectiles hav* ogival heads and
; long bodies. The gun l»eing a smooth
| bore, rotation is given to the torpe
! does as they move through the air by
\ means of spiral vanes, sometning ou
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the plan of a ship’s propeller, which
are attached to tho rear. The full
calibre projectile is eleven feet in
length and has a capacity for 500
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pounds of high explosive. The point
is made of bronze and the body of
steel three-sixteenth of an iuch i
thickness. The explosive charge
divided iuto two parts by a diaphragm
across the interior of tho projectile,
about at its middle, tho object being
to distribute equally tho strain caused
by the setting back of the charge at
the instant of discharge, thus causing
less shock to the explosive. Tho fuse
which causes the explosion is situated
in the point of tho projectile, where
it is inserted just, before tho loading.
The range of this projectile is 2600
yards.
Two sizes of sub-calibre projectiles
nre used ; one ten inches m diameter,
which carries a charge of 200 pounds
of high explosive aud lias a range of
more than 4000 yards, and the other
eight inches in diameter, carrying 100
pounds of dynamite and having a range
of 5200 yards. Tlio fuse used in this
projectile is somewhat moro than
twelve inches long aud 3£ inches in
diameter and weighs twenty pounds.
To tho end of it is attached a brass
case, containing a priming charge of
21 pounds of dry gun cotton. About
thirty-seven grains of fulminate of
mercury are used to explode tho gun
cotton. All of the more important
parts of the fuse are in duplicate, in
order to insure certainty of action.
The hammers are locked until tho pro¬
jectile is well out of the muzzle of tho
gun, when they are automatically un¬
locked.
Tho fuses may be set to explodo tho
instant the projectile strikes the water,
projectile or two or Hies throe through seconds the later. air always The
in view until it strikes the water. Tons
water burst into the air and then
settle down into great stretches of
white foat^y, Sphe forco of the shots is
f<‘4 at 8V *r\y Hook, and on on Fri
istinctly noticcaulc at Affim
spoTwnere Tuv I prujtfel q—r .nil.,
A Youthful Giant.
A boy of gigantic proportions, such
as lias never before been equaled by
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THE GIANT BOY.
similar objects of curiosity, is being
exhibited in Berlin, says a writer in
the St. Louis Pcst-Dispatch. His
name is Carl Ullrich, and he was born
in September, 1889. His father is
a man of small stature, and his mother
and their seven other offsprings show
no unusual proportions. Up to his
third year Charles grew normally;
from that time on he took a spurt to¬
ward an unusually rapid development.
He is now nearly six feet tall and
weighs 330 pounds. His head measures
in circumference twenty-seven inches.
Hands and feet are enormously de¬
veloped, the middle finger of each
hand being in diameter the size of a
sdver dollar. Professor Virchow, who
has closely examined this juvenile
monstrosity, states that all the bodily
organs perform their functions
normally, and that in all probability
the giant youngster will surpass all
rnen when he reaches his
majorit ' ^ C arl was a bright and active
[ gchoo]> an q converses in
eiH b tl with his ant Hence, although
he h aH been in the museum but a very
short time.
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Puzzle: Which is which?—Judge,