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targets on tre sea.
How the Tars Learn to Hit a Mark
With Big Guns.
The Powder and Shell Enough Silk
for a Lady's Dress Is Blown Dp
With Every Shot—The Character of
the Keport—A 3-Pounder Rapid-
Fire Gun Has the Most Vicious Bark
of All-Hardening the Big Projec
tiles.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Target practice as carried out in the
r ,tv to-day consists of stationary and
moving practice, the former a more or
, S f preliminary form of exercise, the lat
ter to enable the gunner to apply Kncnvl
rrigt previously gained, under conditions
, Ttj osedl v approximating those of actual
-ring in time of war. The target is oriii
naiily stationary ; that is to say, it is al
lowed to Coat freely, but it is not moved.
No convenient and practical method of
Hying it rapid motion has yet been de
vised, But this will—nay, it must—come.
Still, a vessel passing a target at the
speed of twelve knots gives practically
the same practice as if both target and
vessel were moving in opposite directions
at a speed of six knots each.
The regulation target, which lias re
mained unchanged for years, consists of
a triangle of boards lying fiat in the
water through the center of the triangle
a vertical staff is supported, carrying a
shot at the lower end for hallast. two or
three feet under water. The upper end
~f the staff is stayed to each corner of
the triangle by a small rope. On this
r ,ipe is secured a triangular pieceof white
cloth, its inner edge, parallel to the staff
and the bottom to the surface of the
water. The inner lower corner is tied to
the staff.
WHAT the target looks ljke.
Each of these three right-angled tri
angles has a black semi-circle painted on
its inner edge, the diameter of the circle
against the staff. The appearance of the
target, at the usual distance, is always
•bat of a white equiangular triangle with
a black ball in the center, no matter how
it may twist and turn about. Barrels,
boxes and wooden floats of various forms
are used for rapid fire gun. small arm and
sub-caliber practice. Owing to the long
range of heavy guns target practice is
carried on at sea in unfrequented waters
to avoid danger to vessels and other
property. All cruising ships are required
to have practice once each quarter with
all calibers of guns on board. Complete
records of the firing, with a diagram
showing the. distance of each shot from
the target as it passed it, are forwarded
to the navy department.
The guns of a ship's battery are di
vided into groups called gun divisions,
each in charge of a lieutenant or ensign.
Each gun is ordinarily fired by the sea
man in charge of it, who is called the gun
captain, though occasionally it may be
found advisable to allow a particularly
good marksman who is not otherwise
qualified for a gun captain to aim and fire.
The officer of the division exercises gen
eral supervision, but would not ordina
rily aim the guns.
FIRING GUNS BY ELECTRICIT.
in turret ships carrying heavy guns
the officer of the gun or division usually
aims and fires, and in ships fitted with
arrangements for firing the battery by
electric means from the conning tower,
the captain of the ship may do the firing,
the guns being kept trained on the target
by the captain of the gun as usual. If
for any reason the gun no longer points at
the target or enemy, it is cut out of the
tiring circuit by the gun captain, who
breaks the connection. It this way only
those guns trained on the target will bo
fired, no matter bow many there are bn
the circuit.
In order to determine the accuracy of
lire, two observing stations at right angles
to each other arc established. One of the
observers is usually onboard the ship, the
other in a boat which is to keep as nearly
a% possible on a line through the center of
the target at right angles to the line of fire.
The observer on the ship notes the dis
tance from the target to the right or left
of the splash of the projectile where it
touches the*water for the first time. The
observer in the boat notes whether the
splash is short of the target or beyond it,
and how much. The target and observ
ers being in position and everything in
readiness, the crew are sent to quarters,
and the vessel having attained her dis
tance. she is started ahead and the firing
begins.
FINDING THE DISTANCE OF A TABGET.
The distance of a target is ascertained
by a range finder or by sextant angles.
When other means are not availa
ble it may be determined experimentally
by trial shots from the guns of the
secondary battery. The practice with
the secondary battery is usually at
shorter range than with the larger guns,
running from 500 to 1,200 yards, as against
l.dnii to 2.500 yards. The percentage of
hits and good shots is much higher natur
ally, for the rapid fire and machine guns
are handled like a rifle on a rest.
A long bar is bolted to ithe gun slide
and has a hollow.rubber tube fastened to
the inner end to rest against the shoulder
as a buffer. This bar is used like the
stork of an ordinary musket —by means of
nthe gun i.-i elevated, depressed and
trained in the smaller calibers, turning
upon the trunnions and training horizon
tieally about a vertical pivot. The rapid
lire guns arc all fitted with quick work
ing breech mechanism : a single motion
suffices to open the breech, turn the plug
out of the way and eject the empty shell.
THE POWDER FOR BIG GI NS.
The ammunition for the great guns is
Put up separately, the projectile stowed
iu the shell room (or shot locker, if armor
piercing and without a bursting charge)
uni the powder in copper cylinders in the
uuigazine. Guns of 10-incli caliber and
r übove have their powder charge in two or
n "tv sections. This is necessary for con
venience of handling, as the charge of a
J'J-iuch gun weighs 250 pounds, that of a
’-inch gun 425 pounds. The powder
nnins are hexagonal prisms, hard as
dune, an inch across and three-quarters
1 1 an inch high, with a quarter-inch axial
nob These are stacked up like so many
pnker chips.
A number of the piles brought together,
i ’ling closely into each other by reason
of their hexagonal shape, form a charge
11 section of one, which is tied up tightly
iu a silk and wool bag—so tightly that
'be grains cannot be loosened nor dis
-11:11' and. The use of silk and wool is not
uuc to pride nor style. Any persons who
■nay feel called upon to deplore the ex
travagant expense thus entailed are likely
n> have their economical instincts further
narrowed up by learning that the firing
•'* 12-inch gun, in addition to blowing
j" smithereens almost enough material
h'i* a lady's new spring dress, has like
" isf ruined beyond repair $175 worth of
euod brown gunpowder and placed an SBS
t or shell where a professional treas-
! lre hunter would have difficulty in find
ing it.
bear AND TEAR ON GUNS.
The gun also deteriorates. After 200 or
_ ll shots the erosive action of the powder
E‘ l has eaten away the sharp edges of
in 'bauds and grooves and taken little
l,tCs out of the smooth surfaces until the
’’ 1 ■" interior of the bore appears tohavo
suffered from an aggravated case of the
smallpox. The projectile is no longer
i 1 • 1 to rotate, but slips freely through
"■ enlarged bore, and the gun, though
l erfcctly safe, has lost its power and its
''"curacy. It must then be returned to
1 gun factory and have a lining tube in
- orted. This gives it anew lease of life,
but these liners ai-c apt to give more or
less trouble, and the piece is neither
so strong nor so reliable as before.
In the rapid fire guns the wooden dum
my exercise or drill shell is used. This
dummy has a metallic head and base,
supporting a rifled barrel of small-arm
caliber running through the axis. The
base end is chambered to receive the
usual small-arm cartridge, which is held
in place bv a small cap like a shell extrac
tor. For the 10-inch gun the breech plug
is removed and a special plug inserted,
into which a long 1-pounder gun is secure
ly set, so that instead of a 800 pound shell,
a 1-pounder is expended each time. The
operations of aiming aro alike in both
cases, however, and the turret must be
trained and tho gun elevated and worked
as if the full charge and projectile were
used. Thus at insignificant expense a
large number of men can bo made skilled
gunners with each different piece. The
regular full caliber practice eventually
completes the experience which the other
lias begun.
THE ACCURACY OF MARK MANS HIP.
To appreciate tho precision of modern
gunnery you have only to observe one of
the new ships at practice. If by accident
you have an awning up and a near-sighted
gun captain temporarily mistakes your
boat for the target, as happened to a
young officer out in China a few years
ago, your appreciation of this accuracy is
still further heightened, but not so much
appreciated.
Armor piercing shell are of forged steel,
treated by different processes of temper
ing and annealing, according to the
formula of the makers. The composition
of the metal and subsequent treatment
are all supposed to be secrets. The tem
pering process makes tho projectile ex
tremely hard, but sets up internal strains
liable to cause spontaneous rupture. To
relieve this without materially reducing
the hardness and tenacity, annealing is
resorted to. Exactly what the details of
the annealing process consists in are not
known outside of the several works where
it is done, but a fortune awaits the man
who will discover it and adapt its improv
ing influence upon the dispositions of some
old naval martinets who have been going
through a tempering process for a good
many years.
HOW THE REPORTS SOUND.
One feature of target practice and gun
firing has been generally misunderstood.
This is the noise. While it is a general
rule that the larger the gun the greater
the volume of sound, it is found that there
is a great difference in its quality and
effect upon the ears.
Perhaps the most unpleasant sound of
all is that produced by the 3-pounder
rapid fire gun. The report is high
pitched. sharp and vicious in tone. It
seems to pierce the ear drums. The
8-inch. 10-inch and 13-inch guns have a
deep, booming roar, which is not so un
pleasant. though the air-blast is terrific
near the muzzles, and if anyone were too
near, it would cause instant death. The
sound of firing heavy guns from closed
turrets is by no means as unpleasant to
those inside as has been imagined.
The air disturbance and report are
chiefly outside. Those inside the turret
are not as much disturbed by noise as if
they were near 5-pounder guns in the
open air. The persons who are responsi
ble for the reports of bursted ear drums
of tint turret guns’ crews were drawing
largely upon their imaginations.
While admiring the ordnance for our
modern fleet there is much difficulty in
realizing that less than ten years ago the
greater part of our naval guns were what
“Jackey,” in a happy moment of inspira
tion, derisively called soda water bottles.
The name was apt and it “stuck." No
other comparison sufficed so clearly to
represent their short, stumpy dignity.
PROFITS OF BOOKMAKERS.
Not Printers or Binders, But the
People Who Clear Bets at the Race
Track.
From Harper’s Weekly.
Racing in America is not in as good
repute as it was some years ago. It has
now become a regular business instead of
a sport, and the bookmakers of the bet
ting-ring probably have more to say in
managing l’aces than any other class of
men. These bookmakers are not only
owner of horses, but owners and
managers of race tracks. They make the
laws of the racing world, and break those
laws whenever it suits them. A more
idiotic idea never existed in the world
than that a man by persistent betting and
“good luck” could overcome the percent
age that the bookmakers have in their
favor.
If men must bet on horse races, it would
probably be better, and more in their
favor, if the bookmakers regulated the
odds entirely according to the amount of
money placed on each horse. Then the
bettors would merely be paying to the
book maker a certain percentage for his
services in clearing the bets. But, as has
been said befoi-e, many bookmakers are
also horse owners and race track owners.
Under such circumstances, it can be
readily believed that they have every
facility to win the money of bettors, with
out giving the latter any chance what
ever. Say that a bookmaker or an owner
in league with a bookmaker, has a horse
of great speed and endurance. The book
maker causes this horse to be beaten re
peatedly by inferior animals. The race
going public concludes that the hoi’se is
not nearly so good as had been thought.
This conviction having been arrived at,
the bookmaker puts him in a race; the
public bets heavily upon other horses, the
bookmaker giving all kinds, of odds, so
as to induce heavy betting. Then,
in the x’ace, ins horse. or the
horse he controls is cut loose, and wins
not only the stake or purse, but all the
money in the book. The men who go into
the business of book -loaning arc not. as a
rule, persons of the highest moral sense.
The legitimate profit from a book made
with mathematical exactness should be
great enough to satisfy the desires of any
well-regulated man. But the chances in
favor of making a large sum out of a race
by methods rightly considered to be dis
reputable. are so great that it is a most
exceptional book-maker who will not go
into a combination or conspiracy to de
ceive and rob the public. At an ordinary
race meeting there are fifty book-makers
in the ring. Sometimes there arc as
many as eighty. When there are fifty
the expenses of these book-makers are
$7,500 a day, or $112,500 for a meeting of
fifteen days. Now, it is absolutely neces
sary for these book-makers to tax the
bettors during the meeting $112,500. Each
book-maker, of course, tries to make a
good deal more than expenses, and if
they all succeed, the tax would be at
least $225,000 during each meeting
of fifteen days. If we should
add to this amount $200,000. as
the amount won by the book-makers,
not as mathmetieians, but as gamblers,
we should come to something near the
amount that the book makers exact froui
the public at each race-meeting of fifteen
days. This $425,000 only represents the
amount of money that the book makers
take from the public in an ordinary race
meeting. It is probable that there is a
small and select ring of bettors who win
at pretty nearly every meeting. Certainly
these winnings must average $75,000 at
each meeting. This would make a grand
total of $51X1.000 that the public pays for
the privilege of bettting at a race meeting
of fifteen days. It would be hard to get
at the volume of betting at each race
meeting, but a half million dollars is a
very large sum of money, and a great
many pocket-books have to be emptied to
make it up. The ordinary visitor to a
race track probably pays, even though he
have good fortune, a tax of 10 per cent,
upon all of his wagres. At this rate, tak
ing five Successful and five unsuccessful
bets, the capital first invested is likely to
bo exhausted after ten races have been
speculated upou.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1803.
MAIL BAG IS SEW LASDS.
Enormous Expansion of the Postal
Service in Recent Years.
The Postal Union Stretches Clear
Across Africa, Where Most of the
Explorers Made Their Fame It Costs
No More to Send a Letter to Victoria
Nyanza Than to Liverpool The
Time of Transit Decreasing Mecca
Has Cheap Rates.
From the New York Sv.n.
It is an interesting fact that all those
parts of equatorial Africa where a half
score of great explorers made their fame,
regions from which most of the sensa
tions of African discovery have come, are
now embraced in the Postal Union. It
costs nomore to-day to send a letter or a
newspaper far toward the head waters of
the Congo, or to the great lakes of tho
heart of Africa, than to mail them from
New York city to Liverpool or St. Peters
burg. It costs no more to send mail mat
ter to the nethermost parts of Siberia, or
to scores of Pacific islands that did uot
contain a single white resident a few
years ago, than it does to Paris. Of
course this vast extension of the world’s
mail service is not now, and will not be
for years to come, upon a self-supporting
basis. It is merely one of the agencies
which the civilized world has adopted for
facilitating progress in the great regions
which it is trying to develop.
A 5-cent stamp will tako one of our
mammoth Sunday newspapers from this
country to the white stations on the far
upper Congo. The probability is that the
actual cost of delivering one of these
newspapers at Stanley Falls, for instance,
is twice or three tiroes the amount of
postage charged. It is carried over the
ocean about 7,000 miles before it enters
Africa, It is transshipped three times
before, at Matadi, ninety miles from the
sea. it is at last placed on the back of the
mail carrier, who is to transport it 235
miles around the cataracts of the lower
Congo. There it is placed on one of the
steamers of the upper river, and the
carriage becomes reasonably cheap
again. Every pound of mail that goes
to the upper Congo is encased in water
proof wrappings, and for more than two
weeks it is carried up hill and down, un
der the scorching sun and through the
tropical rains, on the backs of porters;
and when it finally reaches Stanley l’ool
the mail is sorted for shipment by one or
another of the little steamboats that drop
the mail packages at the government sta
tions or commercial posts as they thread
their way among the islands for 1,000
miles up the main river, for 8(H) miles up
the great Kassai and Sankuru tributaries
of the south, or for 500 miles up the Mo
bangi affluent of the north.
All these upper Congo stations, some
seventy-five in number, isolated as they
are from the rest of the world, have most
of the conveniences of the modern postal
service. When white men among the
cannibals and the dwarfs write to their
friends at home, they have the neat |>ost
age stamps of the Congo Free State to
affix to the envelopes. If they wish to
send money home they may procure
money orders at any of the stations of
the state, where, also, the orders they re
ceive from abroad are cashed. The only
respect in wnieh the service is deficient
is that the mails are irregular, for the
white pioneers often wait days and even
weeks for the arrival of the mail steamer,
which is not only to bring them tidings
from home, but also the stores which
they need in carrying on their work.
This great convenience to the civilized
world was formed at a convention held at
Berne in 1874. The territory which since
then has acquired the privileges of the
union is about two-thirds as large as the
original area. The most of this territory
is found in the newer parts of the world,
which arc now being developed by vari
ous governments. With the consent of all
the states that were original parties to
the agreement, its advantages have been
extended to all their newly acquired ter
ritories. When Brazil entered the Postal
Union, not only its coast towns, but also
its most insignificant hamlets, nestled
among the Andes, on the upper waters of
the Amazon, were included in the arrange
ment. Some countries require at least a
part of their colonies to bear the cost of
tho service, whose expenses much
exceed the direct charge upon the
public; and as some of these colo
nies are not willing to bear the cost
they do not have the privilege of cheap
postage. Natal and Cape Colony, for in
stance, are not willing to make up out of
the public treasury, the considerable de
ficit which the cheap rates of the Postal
Union would involve. We therefore see
the anomaly of postage rates to the coast
towns of Natal and Cape Colony two or
three times as great as those to the neigh
boring parts of Portuguese. East Africa.
The South African Republic has not
chosen to enter the Postal Union. The
great mass of the Boers receive very few
letters from abroad, anyway, and the
thgory of tho government is that the
thousands of Europeans who have come
to their gold mines can pay extra post
age ; and so it happens that though one
railroad from the sea has reached Preto
ria, the capital, and two others arc ap
proaching that town, it costs about three
times s much to send a letter there as to
the lake regions of central Africa.
Most of the inhabited world except
China and Corea now enjoys the benefits
of the postal union. China declines to
come iii, and the thousands of letters
passing monthly between her sons in for
eign lands and the friends at home are
handled in nfost dilatory fashion and at
high postage rates. The only large area
in Africa not included in the union is the
Sahara Desert and the fanatical Soudan.
To be sure, the “king of kings’’ who rules
over Abyssinia has not yet applied for ad
mission, but he has recently woke up to
the importance of postal facilities, and
steamers touching at any of the four
coast towns that are connected with the
king’s capital by caravan routes never
fail to find, nowadays, a royal valise, all
ready for the king’s mail.
The age of steam has brought the outer
fringe of the world much nearer to us.
The Arctic tragedy that rost the lives of
Dc Ixirig and his men could not occur to
day in the same neighborhood, for white
men. pngaged in scientific wonts have
continuously occupied the l.cna Delta for
many months past. We expect to hear
once more from Dr. Nansen, because he
has promised. before he pushes into the
ice field, which lie hopes will carry him
to the pole, to touch at a point on the
coast of Asia where he can communicate
with Russians and send a message home.
Nordenskiold skirted the same coast, aud
wc never heard of him until he emerged
into Japanese waters. No one, previous
to Peary, ever thought of sending tidings
home from the Smith Sound region. But
Peary utilized the natives to carry his
mail package hundreds of miles south
to the whalers, who brought it safely
home, proving that explorers in that
region are not quite buried by ice and
snow out of l’each of the world. Early
next spring, when Peary starts on his
long journey over the inland ice, there is
no doubt that one of the natives will be
skimming on his sledge along the ice foot
towards Cape York with a package of
letters telling how his little party has
spent the winter and begun the spring
campaign.
Within the memory of men still young.
Burton landed on the coast of “The Horn
of Africa” disguised as an Arab mer
chant. taking his life in his hand in order
that he might telL the world something
about oue of the holy cities of Mohamme
danism He reached Harrar in safety
and remained there nine days. The peo
ple who gave him a most kind reception
never dreamed that he was other than
he represented himself to !>e or he would
never have left their city alive. The city
was not seen again by a white explorer
until after all that region came into the
possession of Egypt, in 1875. To-day it
lias regular mail communication with the
rest of the world. Fora long time the
mails were confined to caravans, when
they left the coast; but this method did
give satisfaction because it was irregular
and so mail carriers wore finally engaged;
and now, at stated intervals after the ar
rival of steamers on the coast, a camel
driver with a small escort starts over the
sand wastes, and in five days the mails
are distributed to the officials, the Greek
merchants, the other white men, and the
eduaated natives who live in Harrar.
There is nothing that more vividly il
lustrates the wonderful progress now
making toward the utilization of the
hitherto neglected parts of the world
than the growth of postal facilities.
This great convenience is even outstrip
ping other agencies pf civilization, for it
is creeping into some particularly inacces
sible districts ahead of them. No white
man dare to-day risk his life in Mecca
unless he is able to assumo an impene
trable diguise. But the Postal Union is
there through the instrumentality of the
Sultan's government. Anybody may
send letters to Mecca at the regular
Postal Union rates and they will reach
their destination. Of course Mecca lias
practically no communication by mail
with the western world, but the mail
bags are often plethoric with tho letters
from all parts of the Mohammedan
world. Probably no agency will he more
helpful in the long run in breaking down
tlte barriers that remain than the postal
service.
A little over four months ago a letter
was sent from tiie Sun office to Port
Moresby, on the South coast of New
Guinea. The whole of the great island
being Postal Union territory, the postage
was the same as to Liverpool. 5 cents.
Last week an answer was received. Fif
teen years ago not a white man lived on
the island except a few Dutchmen on the
northwest coast. To-day there are eight
little ports on the south coast alone, to
which a steamer line from Australia is
under contract to deliver the mails reg
ularly.
There are only a few parts of the world
that cannot now be reached by mail with
a considerable degree of regularity.
China and Corea are tho only densely
populated regions that form an exception
to this fact. But there are some isolated
communities that eagerly welcome every
scrap of information from the out
side world, and that receive the mails
only at irregular and infrequent inter
vals. Such are the Pitcairn islanders
and that other far-away colony on Tristan
daCunha, in the Atlantic, who do not
know from one month to another when
they will be blessed with a fresh lot of
letters and newspapers,'.though they are
certain that some day a British tuan-of
war will come along with a mail bag for
them.
Every year the out-of-the-way parts of
the world are reached a little more expe
ditiously. Four new steamer lines have
been put on African routes within the
past three years. Africa now has over
(3,000 miles of railroads, and the steady
extension of those lines that are pushing
slowly toward the far interior will, in
the course of time, reduce by many weeks
the present length of the journey. To
day. if a letter for New Guinea promptly
catches the outgoing mails at the various
points of trans-shipment, it is delivered
there in less than seven weeks. So. as
we look over the great field and see the
rapid advance of postal communications,
telegraphs, and railroads, we realize how
wonderfully the work#of bringing all
parts of tiie world nearer to one another
is progressing.
The Husky Whip Trick.
From Harper's Young People.
Crack 1 crack! crack!
“Say, Jimmy, has Jack got a pistol?”
asked Joe Hickey of his companion,
Boundless Jimmy Atwater, as the two
turned into the gate of Jack Pcall's house
one November afternoon.
Crack! crack! crack!
“A pistol Why lie’s got a regular ar
senal.” said Jimm.v. “But you don’t sup
pose his father'd be letting him lire ’em
off in the garden, do you?”
“What was that noise, then?” inquired
Joe.
“Oh, that noise?” said Jimmy. “I
don’t know, but it sounds like the snap
ping of a big teamster whip—and that’s
just what it is,” he continued as they
turned the corner of the house, and saw
Jack swinging a whip with a tremen
dously long lash over his head, then with
quirk twist of the stock snap tho lash
straight in front of him. so that the ex
treme end of it hit the ground about
eighteen feet distant, raising a little
cloud of dirt, and making a sharp, loud
sound, not unlike that made by tiring a
pistol.
“That’s a good trick. Where’d you
learn it?” exclaimed Jimmy.
“At the world’s fair, Chicago, 111.,” re
plied Jack. “I'll teach you! if you like.
It's not so easy as it looks, but it’s rare
sport. It’s an Eskimo game. You know
they had a village on the grounds. One
of the guards told me about the Huskies
that’s the nickname they give tho Es
kimos. He told me that they drive their
dogs each harnessed to the sledge by a
separate trace, and they guide them en
tirely by the whip; and there'll lie from
six to twelve dogs in a team. They get
very expert with their long whips, and
can pick a bit of skin right off them when
they want to. When 1 was there 1 just
went in for a few minutes with my uncle,
and a crowd of them were making a little
extra money with their skill. One of the
visitors would throw a quarter of a dollar
into a little hole in the ground, around
which the Esquimos were standing, and
they would all try to flick it out with
their whips. One would succeed, and
would snake it right out of the hole, and
snap it back almost into his hands. It
was great sport. Sometimes one would
get it, and sometimes another. 1 thought
it would be a good game out here at home,
so I got an Eskimo, whom I know, to
teach me. 1 can’t do it very well yet, but
I know the principle, and I am practising
so as to be able to know enough to show
the rest of the boys, then we could have
fun snapping at a mark, or picking peb
bles or marbles out of holes in the
ground.”
No Fun About Bucking Broncos.
From the San Francisco Bulletin.
“Many people have an idea that to ride
a bucking bronco is the cowboy’s delight,
but they're badly mistaken. There's no
fun in it. When a thoroughbred rears
and prances there’s no jar in it, and I
rather like to have one do it if 1 am rill
ing. But when a bronco bucks and jumps
into tho air and comes down stiff-legged,
with his feet planted together, that jars
every bone in the rider's body, especially
the backbone, and is apt to make him feel
pretty sick iu short order.
“My first experience with a bucking
bronco cured me of the idea that there
was fun in it. I had read that the cow
hoy always locks his spurs under the
bronco’s belly at such times, and so 1 did
the same. Well, the spurs went through
the horse-hair cinch, and the bronco kept
bucking so long as they staid there. I
couldn't get them out till two men Came
to help me.
“The proper thing to do when a bronco
bucks is to keep your spurs away from
him, balance yourself forward or back
ward in the saddle, according to the way
he jumps, and grip him well between your
knees You have to let him buck till he
gets tired of it or finds he can’t get you
off.”
TEA AND COFFEE.
TEAS and COFFEES
GROWER TO CONSUMER.
You can save ‘2O to 510 pev rent, buying your 'l'cas and CotTcex from tho
Old Reliable Pioneer Tea House that has been before the
people of the United States the past 33 years.
TUC RCA CAW WHY WF TAN Hfl IT Ist—Because we Lave superior facilities, “id—We are
IHC. ntAMJIN WHY Wt LAIN UU_ I L- the Largest Bujrra amidol lie Largest Business
of nuy Tea House itt tho world. :td We catt and do defy any legitimate competition; running *iOO
liramli stores, and as many delivery wagons, we are compelled, as a matter of necessity, to do our own im
porting, consequently the public, in buying front us, hit y direct from first hands, tints saving six to eight
intermediate profits.
->}TEAS AT CARGO PRICES^-
IBlack illeas.
AMOY OOLONG 35c., 40t\, best 50c
FORMOSA OOLONG 60c., 70c., best 80c
FOO CHOW OOLONG best 1 (X)
GOOD ENGLISH BREAKFAST...3Sc., 40c., l>est 50c
CONGO ENGLISH HItEAKFAST..SOC., 60c., best 70c
SOI CHONG ENGLISH BREAK
FAST 80c., 90c., best 1 00
RUSSIAN CARNAVAN best 1 00
ASSAM PEKOE 50c., I>est 60c
ORANGE PEKOE : best 70c
BASKET FIRED JAPAN 50c., 60c., best 80c
Drink THEA NECTAR. 60c. per lb.
PIKE CHINESE TEA.
COFFEE AT IMPORTERS’ PRICES.
-~<X GREEN COFFEE x<*
STRONG RIO Best 220
WHITE RIO Best 2. r x;
LAG II AYR A Best 25e
MARACAIBO... Best 25c
J AVA, Plantation Best 28c
JAVA Old Govt Best 30c
PEABERRY Best :10c
MOCHA, Genuine Best 35c
Try Our JAVA and MOCHA, 3 pounds $l.OO.
-ai % PULVERIZED COFFEE A SPECIALTY }*~-
Beautiful Presents Given Away to Advertise Our World-Renowned Goods
NO HOUSEHOLD TABLE COMPLETE WITHOUT OUR CELEBRATED GOODS.
I>rin li
Tlioa Nectar.
Pure
Chinese Tea.
69c.
per pouml.
I SO 4. & I*,
(taking
l'osvder.
45c.
per pound.
Largest Stock! Lowest Prices! Complete Assortment!
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Cos.,
i s o BROUGHTON ST., - SAVANNAH, GA.
H. T. WILSOINT, Manager.
CROCKERY.
Welcome, taiisis.
All visitors will find a
hearty welcome at our China
Palace.
We invite everybody,
whether buyers or not, to
come in and see the finest
display of Christmas Nov
elties in our line that has
ever come South.
New' goods by every
steamer.
House Furnishing (roods
in abundance.
IIS El 11.
133 Broughton Street,
BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
JUST RECEIVED.
A now lot of Episcopal Common
Prayer Hymnals; also a number of
BIBLES.
The Old Common 'Prayer and
Hymnal, with slip, at half price.
THOS. L. WYLLY,
Successor to Wylly * Clarke.
’\roU want stationery and blank books. We
I have the facilities for supplying them.
Send your orders to Morning News Savan
nah, Ga Lithographers, book and job prink
era and blank book manufacturers.
Green leas.
YOUNG HYSON 50c., 70c., bestsl 00
OLD 115 SON 35c., 45c., best 600
PING SUEY GUNPOWDER 85c., 40c., best 50c
MOYUNE GUNPOWDER: 60c., 80c., best 1 00
TWANKY IMPERIAL 86c., 40a, best soc
PAKHOE IMPERIAL 60c., 80c., best 1 00
SILVER LEAF JAPAN 35c , 40c., best 500
GARDEN LEAP JAPAN 60c., 80c., best 90c
CAPER best 70c
NEW COMBINATION, Mixed,
50c., 60c., 75c., 80c., best 1 90
Use JA-PO, 75 cents per pound.
4 Delicious lll<‘n<l. will Mull all Tauten.
PARCHED OR 6ROUND COFFEE
BTRONG 810 Best 250
WHITE RIO Best 30c
LAGUAYRA Best 30c
MARACAIBO BestSOo
JAVA, Plantation Best 35c
JAVA, Old Govt Best 38c
PEABERRY Best 35c
MOCHA, Genuine Best 420
I no 4. Si. I*.
Pure Hpiies.
lOaml 15c.
a can.
MILLINERY.
AT KROUSKOFFS.
GREAT MILLINERY SALE
Felt Hats, Velvet Ilats, Satin Hats, School
Hats, and the latest novelties and new ideas
in Trimmed Hats. The new Theater Bonnet
now ready. Also, very rich and beautiful
Brocades for evening wear. We continue to
sell at strictly wholesale prices and no discount
to milliners.
KROUSKOFF MILLINERY CO.
, ___
fpL i
4 1
fQfV 1
$ §* I
0 @
LET US WHISPER,
Not because we re ashamed of It. hut toavotd
hurting anybody's feelings, there's really only
one place In this town to buy VIII I.DKEN'S
NIIOKN. We keep a tine assortment of the
very best Children’s Footwear, and invite
comparison, both as regards quality and price.
It will be to your advantage to see our stock
before purchasing We keep the very finest
selections In all standard styles at THE LIT
TLE STORK AROUND THF. COKNF.K.
BUTLER & MORRISSEY,
120 Broughton Street.
('SC 4. A I*.
Condensed
Milk.
■ tie.
per can.
Drink
Ja-l*o Tea,
75c.
per pound.
x 43
CHALLENGE PRICE.
FINE DONGOI<A HAND SEWED,
O to 0.
Competitors’ Price, 750.
COLLAT'S
149 BROUGHTON ST.
Send jour Orders for
LITHOGRAPHING,
PRINTING and
BLANKS BOOKS,
To the NORNINO NEWS,
•ataunati, cm,
21
Drink
* O'clock
Itrcakfast
Cofree,
*2sc.
per pound.