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THI'RSBAY, Jltl 7, 1898.
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The New York Journal has now had
three correspondents and an artist wound
ed at the front in Cuba. It is now incum
bent upon the World to have four of its
correspondents killed. It cannot afford
to be beaten by its rival.
How small the world has grown since
the beginning of the war! Before the
breaking out of hostilities we thought of
Cuba as a far away country, Porto Rico
os almost an unknown land, and the Phil
ippines as just a little on this side of the
moon. Now we discourse with as much
readiness and confidence about San Juan,
Manila, and Hong Kong, as we do übout
Omaha and Denver.
The officers and men of the American
fleet engaged In the victorious light with
Cervera’s ships the other day will receive
something more substantial than glory
from their aohievment. The law provides
fhat In sea fights like the Santiago affair,
the American sailors receive a bounty
of 5100 for every man on the shlpfc of the
enemy which are sunk or otherwise de
stroyed. There were in the neighborhood
of 1,700 men on Cervera's ships; therefore
the officers and men will divide about 5170,-
000.
'lt has been rather warm in this section
of the country during the past several
days, but the suffering has not been near
ly so great here as in some of the cities
of the Northern section. In Boston on
Sunday the thermometer marked 1)9 de
grees, and there were several prostrations
from the heat. In Philadelphia on the
tame day 100 degrees was reached, and
there were two deaths and a large num
ber of prostrations. The New York Press
tells of roasting heat in that city on that
clay. The 100 mark was passed, and the
Buffering was widespread. In Savannah
the thermometer sometimes plays up
among the nineties, but it is extremely
seldom that a ease of heat prostration oc
curs. The atmosphere is always pleas
antly tempered by cool breezes from the
ofiean and the shade from thousands of
luxuriant trees in the city limits.
If the Nicaragua canal had been com
pleted, the Oregon would have reached
Cuba in about one-third of the lime li
took her to make the trip around South
America; if it were completed the time
between Atlantic ports and Pacific and
Asiatic ports would lie greatly reduced,
•nd trade would boom. There are lots of
reasons to be urged in favor of the canal.
There is, however, another side to the
question, and the N. w York Press calls
attention to it. If the canul had been
©pen the Oregon would have come through
It. and the world never would have known
what an amazingly fine long distance craft
Bfte Is; the iron works which built her
would never have got the big advertise
ment which her pciformance gave It;
the Russian government would probably
not have invited the president of that
company to visit St. Petersburg to take
orders for warships, and the American
pub.io would not have been enthused by
tte Oregon’s making that K,OOO-mi!e run
and arriving at the end of it ready to go
immediately into action.
The Conspiracy Successful.
The anouneement in our dispatches this
morning ihai the Senate yesterday pass
ed the Hawaiian annexation resolutions
causes no surprise. It was evident when
(he annexationists determined to go out
side of the constitution to carry out their
purpose that the annexation scheme would
be successful.
The conspiracy to annex Hawaii to this
country had its birth during the adminis
tration of President Harrison. The purpose
of it would have ticen effected long be
fore' this if il had not been for the expo
sition of Mr. Cleveland, when lie was
President. President McKinley always
favored annexation, and has given the an
nexation scheme every encouragement in
his power.
The constitutional way to annex Hawaii
was liy treaty, and a treaty for that pur
pose* was negotiated, but the conspirators
were afraid that it would not lie rati
fied by the Senate, a two-third vote be
ing necessary for that purpose; therefore,
they resorted to a joint resolution, the
constitutionality of which method is
doubtful. The resolution receiveel the
votes of two-thirds of those voting, but
it is doubtful if a treaty providing for an
nexation would have obtained such a
majority. It looks as if many of the ex
ponents of annexation, feeling certain that
the resolution would pass, it requiring a
majority, remained away from the Sen
ate when the vote was taken.
The annexation of Hawaii is a step in
the wrong direction. It adds to our coun
try territory which is 2,000 miles distint
from our shores and a population which
we can never assimilate. It Is the open
ing wedge to territorial expansion. It
affords an argument to those who favor
retaining possession of the Philippines,
the Ladrones and all other possessions
which we may take from Spain. It means
conquest and entangling alliances, and a
foreign policy which will require a big
army and a powerful navy. It was an
unfortunate day for this country when
our minister to Hawaii lent the assistance
of our government to the conspirators
who overturned the Hawaiian monarchy
arid set up an oligarchy of which Mr.
Dole is the chief.
!Vo Kerry ltont Meetleil Here.
Those transport ships are not going into
Charleston harbor. The troops will be
ferried outside the harbor to the anchor
age of the transports near the lightship.
A fleet of small steamers has been char
tered for the purpose. “The distance to
the lightship, near which the ships are an
chored,” says the. Charleston News and
Courier, “is only nine miles.” o far, so
good. But the News and Courier cannot
resist the temptation to work off some of
Us envious spleen against Savannah. “At
Savannah,” it says, “it would be necessary
to have them (the troops) carried in small
boats twenty miles down the river, which
would naturally be a far more difficult
and tedious operation.” The truth is that
is not one of those ships, lying four
miles off Charleston bar and nine miles
from the city, which could not come up to
the Savannah wharves. They wbutd find
berths for their accommodation both above
and below the one recently occupied here
by her Britannic majesty's cruiser Cor
delia, Capt. Burke, which did not go to
Charleston.
The official list of merchant vessels of
the United States, published by the bu
reau of navigation, and which also con
tains a list of the vessels of the navy,
gives the “mean draught" of the Colum
bia at 22 feet inches, and of the Yale
(formerly the Paris) as 22 feet. These are
the vessels which are anchored off the
lightship at Charleston, four miles outside
the bar and nine miles from the city,and to
which the troops will be ferried by small
steamers. On April 6 last the British
steamship Hindustan left the wharves of
this city and went to sea drawing 23 feet
6 inches, and on April 22 last the German
steamship Essen left the wharves of Sa
vannah and went to sea on one tide draw
in 23 feet 10 inches. The Essen crossed the
bar at about three-quarters tide, and had
water under her keel to spare. Several
shiiis drawing 24 feet have gone to sea on
two tides.
But even if It were true that the vessels
could not come to the city, it would still
be unnecessary to carry the troops in
“small lioats” twenty miles, or “only nine
miles,” or even one mile. The government
has a deep water wharf at Tybee, and the
Central Railroad has a track which runs
to that wharf. The troops, therefore,
could reach the transports from the cars
by walking probably twenty feet. The
Charleston News and Courier ought to
look out for the interests of ils own port
without making false statements with re
gard to other ports.
Not u beeeli.
This war promises to give the people
of the West an impression of the New
York millionaire altogether different from
that which they have had for a good
many years. In his Fourth of July ora
tion at Long Branch, ex-President Harri
son, a Western man, said:
“The impression prevails in the West
that the New York millionaire is a sort
of leech that preys on the public, but the
work of the Rough Riders in Santiago
has shown the country that the cowboy
of Arizona and the millionaire of Fifth
avenue can rush on to victory shoulder
to shoulder, und proves, too, that wealth
docs not enfeeble or sap the patriotism
from the American heart.”
One of the reasons why there was such
a strong sentiment in favor of the free
coinage of silver in the West and South
in the last national campaign was the
feeling that the millionaires of New York
were living on the toil of the people of
those sections, and that the gold standard
heliied them to do It. The Western and
Southern people did not regard these mil
lionaires as in the least patriotic. They
thought of them only as selfish money
makers, who used the money power to
still further Increase their wealth. When
the war is over the millionaires will be
better understood. They are certainly
showing their willingness to bear a share
of the burdens of the war, and the people
appear to be ready to give them credit for
all the patriotism to which they ure en
titled.
Boston can now afford to dispense with
bombardment insurance, and Cape Cod
ought to tie able to enjoy a really sound
■eight's sleep.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1898.
Tlie Strike of the VfivipappM.
The Chicago newspapers after a “strike"
of three days against the Stereotypers Un
ion of that city, resumed publication yes
terday. The papers will not bo of their
usual proportions, but of sufficient size to
give the news. The suspension of nine of
the greatest newspapers in the Knglish
speaking world rather than submit to the
demands of certain employes, Was doubt
less an unexpected flank,rhovc-ment. Pub
lishers of newspapers have submitted to
one demand after another from so-called
labor unions until submission long since
ceased to be a virtue of even a temporary
protection. The “strike" of the publish
ers, not only threw out the stereotypers,
but also printers, pressmep, mailers and
engineers. The lack of a full force of
men will doubtless he a little embarrass
ing to the Chicago newspapers for a
while, but in the end they will have just
as good workmen and better work. The
arbitrary raising of wages of one man
amounts to little, but When it extends to
hundreds and thousands of men it often
means bankruptcy to the employer and
ultimate suffering to the men. It was
doubtless with the icioa that newspaper
publishers were coining money from the
increased sales of papers, by reason of the
war, that caused the stereotypers to de
mand more pay and less work. Instead
of muking money by publishing their pa
pers, the Chicago people say that just
now they save money by.suspending their
publications* In their letter of reply to
the demands of the stereotypers, they
say:
“It would appear that you have chosen
this particular time to make your de
mands for increased compensation in the
belief that the unusually large sale of
newspapers, occasioned by the existing
war, has made the newspaper business
more profitable, and that therefore pub
lishers would be more willing to increase
the compensation of their employes. You
will readilj' recognize the error of this
view when we remind you that the extra
ordinary demand for white paper has
materially increased its cost; that the
normal expenses of news gathering, inci
dent to the war, and the telegraphic
transmission of same are enormously in
creased, while the usual receipts from
commercial advertising are greatly re
duced because of the general disturbance
of business conditions.”
This is doubtless a true statement. In
their efforts to get up large circulations
for their respective papers publishers have
in some cases wiped out the last vestige
of profit from sales of papers §nd sub
scriptions, and thrown the burden
of supporting the papers upon ad
vertisers. Thg reuslt is that many
newspapers that were once great dividend
earning investments have either ceased to
lie profitable or only make small returns.
It might be well for such publishers to
adopt some plan by which the burden of
supporting newspapers would be more
equitably distributed between their read
ers and their advertising patrons.
Give Shutter a Cliance,
Among military men and politicians in
Washington there is a disposition to find
fault with Gen. Shafter because of his
failure to take Santiago within the time
he said he could take it after the first
day’s battle. He said he could lake it in
forty-eight hours.
There is no doubt that he was sincere
in making that statement, and it is prob
able that he could have taken it within Ihe
time stated. He didn’t do it for the rea
son, probably, that he came to the con
clusion that he would not be justified in
sacrificing the lives of a large number of
his men to accomplish that which he could
accomplish within a few days without the
loss of many of his men. He believed,
doubtless, that when the Spanish squad
ron was destroyed the Spanish army would
surrender, or that, if it <\id not surrender,
he could with the aid of his heavy siege
guns, which he could in the meantime
place in position, and with the help of Ad
miral Sampson’s squadron, compel it to
do so, without exposing his army to a se
rious loss.
One thing he has to bear in mind is the
welfare of his army. He would subject
himself to the severest condemnation if
he should recklessly throw away the lives
of his men.
That he has made some mistakes is prob
able. And it would be rather remarkable
if he had made none, or if he should not
make others before the campaign is end
ed. But thus far he does not appear to
have made any very serious mistakes.
It is probably true that he underestimated
the fighting qualities of the Spanish troops,
and there appears to be some ground for
the criticism that there was not sufficient
precaution taken to prevent Col. Wood’s
regiment, the "Rough Riders" from be
ing surprised on their march from Da
mayo towards Santiago on June 21. Rut
it must not be forgotten that the “Rough
Riders” were hard to control. They were
overanxious to meet the enemy, believing
that it would be only child’s play tt> take
Santiago. In their zeal they sought to
lake an advanced position beyond the
American lints. Consequently they got
far ahead of their relief. They came upon
the Spaniards, who were strongly en
trenched, before they were aware they
were anywhere near them. They were sur
prised. The wonder is that more of them
were not killed, because the Spaniards,
when they fired their firsi volley, were
not more than twenty-five yards away
from them. Gen. Shafter, however, can
hardly be hold responsible for the lack of
caution shown by Col. Wood’s men.
It is hardly probable that Gen. Shafter
will be displaced before he has had a fair
chance to show whether or not he is cap
able of filling Ihe position he occupies.
A pension expert announces that no new
legislation will be necessary for the ben
efit of the sick and wounded of the war
with Spain. The pension office is already
at work upon cases stowing out of the
struggle now going on. The loss of both
hands yields a pension of SICO a month;
of both feet 572 per month; of one hand
and one foot $36 per month; one amputa
tion above elbow or knee, $36 per month;
loss of one eye, sl7 per month; one hand
or one foot, S3O per month; total deafness.
510 per month. This is, of course, not a
full list, but it gives an idea of the value
Uncle Sam places upon the fractional
jparts of his soliiierg.
Theodore Roosevelt’s bravery, ability
and oash In leading his troops in Cuba
have caused him to lie talked of in New
York in connection with the Republican
nomination for Governor. It transpires,
by the way, that no man has been elected
Governor of New York upon his military
record made during the late civil war.
PERSON A L.
—To a correspondent who recently wrote
to Ouida for material out of which to con
struct a biography of that lady, the dis
tinguished author replied: “I have not re
plied to you because 1 regret to refuse
your request, and 1 cannot comply with
it. The life of such a min as Burton or
Wellington contains material for history,
but that of a man or woman of the wor.d
has nothing in it which is not essentially
private and personal. My works are there
for all to read. With me individually they
have nothing to do. print tabs if you like."
—Geronimo, the famous Apache chief, is
stationed at Fort Sill, in the Indian Terri
tory, and he spends most of his time
playing monte. He Is 90 years old, but
straight and hetive and with an eye like
a Rocky Mountain eagle. Notwithstand
ing his years, he occasionally gets permis
sion to go hunting and seems to enjoy the
s;iort as much as ever. He has been fight
ing the whites jiuring most of Ihe lime
since the war of 1612, but is now reconciled
to them and lives peacefully on their
bounty, toothless, propitiatory and com
posed. He has been a total abstinence In
dian all his life, and Lis age and state of
preservation show that it has been a
good thing for him.
—lt is not generally known that it took
Fred Grant, like Phil Sheridan, five years
to graduate from West Point, says an ex
change. It speaks well for the Intention
of the West Point academic board to
make every cadet stand on his own
merits, when it is known that notwith
standing the fact that Fred’s father was
then at the hight of his fame and in a
position, if he would, practically to make
or unmake any army officer, that the
board members sent Fred at the first
transfer to the bottom of his class. Fred
saw that being found deficient in mathe
matics at the next examination was ine
vitable. The penalty was dismissal. He
managed to avoid the examination by get
ting a year’s sick leave. He then went
buck and joined the new ”pleb” class,
thereby losing a year. Then he braced
up, studied har.l and graduated, but es
caped the “tail-ender” of his class by only
one file,
BRIGHT BITS.
—She—You say that you have never been
in love. How near have you come to it?
He—l was married once.—Harlem Life.
—"Plow much do you charge for a ride
in the balloon?” “Forty cents going up.”
“And down?” “Four dollars.”—Fliegende
Blatter.
—“Kaiser Wilhelm,” remarked Rivers,
“seems to be fishing for trouble.” “You
refer, of course,” said Brooks, “to his
carping about our war.”—Chicago Tribune.
—Bacon—Your wife spends hours at the
dressmaker’s. Now, what does it all
amount to?
Egbert—A pretty figure.—Yonker’s
Statesman.
—"Dar Isn’ much comfort in de remahk
dat contentment is better dan riches,”
said Uncle Eben. “One is jes’ about as
hahd to git as de other.”—Washington
Star.
—The Cornfed Philosopher.—“lt is all
wrong,” said the Cornfed Philosopher, "to
say that a woman can make a fool of a
rrian. She merely develops him.”—lndian
apolis Journal.
—lt is Contraband.—Spatts—There is one
king who is not on the side of King Al
fonso.
Bloobumper—’What king is that?
Spati3—Old King Coal.—Judge.
—Short.—Young Doctor—Did you diag
nose his case as appendicitis, or merely
the cramps?
Old Doctor—Cramp. He didn’t have
money enough for appendicitis.—Life.
—His First Engagement.—“l think I
know now,” said the soldier, who was
making a. determined effort to masticate
his first ration of army beef, "what peo
ple mean when they talk about the sinews
of war.”—Chicago Tribune.
—Grandma was in the habit of reading
Willie a story after he went to bed. One
evening she was persuaded to read a sec
ond,' and Willie demanded still another.
“Not any more to-night,” said grandma,
firmly. "Oh, please, grandma, lets have
the rubber.”—Tit-Blis.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Spain Ought to Quit.
From the Macon Telegraph (Dem.).
There seems to be no reason now why
Spain should not pack her duds and leave
this hemisphere. She ought to be convinc
ed. She must see that her time has come
to move. Why should she prolong the
struggle?
German I’rem View.
From Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.).
The war editors of the German press,
we are told by a Berlin dispatch, "con
tinue to regard the situation as very un
favorable for the Americans, as well as
for the Spaniards.” For whom do they
regard it as favorable, then—the Ger
mans?
Our Ever Ready Navy.
From the Washington Star (Ind.).
Sampson's absence at the beginning of
the engagement was in the line of his duty
in co-operation with Gen. Shafter, and it
speaks well for the American navy that
in any emergency, no matter who may be
in command, its fleets are equal to every
sudden call of duty.
Some Thing* the War Show*.
New Orleans Tim- s . emocrat (Dem.).
This war has shown that the staff de
partments need a thorough overhauling,
and that provision should be made for an
adequate reserve of arms and equipments.
If these matters be attended to, the vol
unteers will meet every demand that may
be made upon them, in any crisis of the
country’s fate.
Glory for Everbody.
The Charleston News and Courier (Dem.).
It was a glorious day for Cervera and
the honor of the Spanish navy. After
his capture he said: “I would rather lose
my ships at sea, like a sailor, than in a
harbor. It was the only thing left for me
to do.” That sentiment would do credit
to an American sailor, and will be ap
plauded by all brave men. It was a great
day for Schely and for Ihe American
navy. We are glad that Representative
Berry, a gallant old Con federate soldier,
was though! ful enough to propose the
thanks of Congress to Schley and his offi
cers and men for their splendid achieve
iailU.
1.1 Huns t hnni; anil the Bible.
Dr. Coltman, Ire the Ea&L Asiatic Lloyd,
relates an interesting conversation he had
lately with Li Hung Chang on the subject
of the Bible. He says fhat one day when
he called on the agie.l statesman he found
him reeding a beautifully bound New
Testament, which had recently been sent
him by a missionary connected with the
London mission. The old man was so
deep in the book that for some vninutes
he did not see his visitor. After a
while he raised his eyes and gazed at Dr.
Coltman with a piercing look, and said:
"Dr. Coltnaan, do you believe this book?”
He answer: "Your excellency, if I did
not believe it I should not hifc’e the hon
or of being your physician (medical mis
sionary). X believe it With my whole
heart.”
“Are you sure that tjiis is not all hear
say and human talk?” he asked again.
“Quite sure.”
"How do you know it?” he went on.
“By a sign that the book itself men
tions. Is it not, that a bad tree
can bring forth din good fruit, and a good
tree no bad fruit? Your excellency has
already admitted that the condition of the
people in western lands is far better than
in the Orient, and I can assure you that
the prosperity and happiness of the va
rious nations that you recently visited
correspond exactly to the degree in which
they follow the precepts of this book.
Would God your excellency believed It,
too!”
“Why, I believe you would like to make
a Christian of me,” said he, half joking,
half seriously. ,
"Not only you,” answered Coltman,
“but also your young Emperor, and all
his people.”
“We have Confucius, - said he. “You
have Jesus. Are they not in many re
spects alike?”
Here the viceroy was interrupted by im
portant news, but when his servant took
his Bible from his hands to carry it to his
bookcase he said: “Don’t put it in the
bookcase; lay’ it on the table in my bed
room. I want to look at it again."
V Queer “ ’Scope.”
Sir Robert Ball, the famous astronomer,
was some time ago fulfilling an engage
ment in a certain British town, says the
Chicago Inter Ocean, and while walking
along one of the streets came up to a
man who was urgently inviting the pas
sers-by to gaze through his telescope at
the moon for the modest sum of one half
penny. The astronomer at once decided
to test the man’s instrument; and so, aft
er venturing a copper, applied his eyes
to the tube. But what was Sir Robert’s
astonishment when he saw a fine picture
of a full moon, although at the time the
‘‘lamp of night” was only in her second
quarter.
Being unable to account for the circum
stance, he set about examining the instru
ment, and soon found that it was not a
telescope at all, but simply a tube with a
small hole where the ey’epieee should be,
and a transparent photograph of a full
moon with a light behind it at the other
end! On the great star-gazer asking the
exhibitor how he could so gull the public,
the fellow calmly replied: “Oh, sir, it’s all
right. You know that folks likes a lot
for their money nowadays. I used to
have a proper sort of ’scope once, but I
turned it up for this after a big, hulking
Scotchman bullied me for showing 'im only
’arf a moon! This W’ay paws better, an’
gives more satisfaction! Don’t you see,
sir?”
John Allen on Army Ration's.
Representative John Alien, who has
“had much experience with army rations
and the want of them,” made an observa
tion during his speech on cheese the other
day before the House that should not be
allowed burial in the Congressional Re
cord without some notice from the world
at large, says the Washington Post. After
displaying before his colleagues on the
floor the various components of the army
ration Representative Allen proceeded to
soy that when he was a soldier that ration
“cooked as we know how to cook would
have furnished a feast more templing
than any that could be set before me by
Delmonico.”
With a warning that good soldiers should
not be coddled too much, Representative
Allen said that he “had not been real
hungry since the war without craving
hardtack and bacon. A man with a good
appetite who is really hungry,” added Mr.
Alien, “who can get some hardtack or
baker’s bread and a piece of bacon, put a
stick through it, hold it over a fire and
broil it, and drip the grease on his bread
and eat it has what Is to me a very good
repast if he can get enough of it. When
I get hungry, as I have many a time, 1
think much more about broiled or fried
bacon and bread than I do about terrapin
and champage or lobester ala Newberg or
punch n la Romani.” (Laughter and great
applause.)
. Drilling by the Creed.
A story is told in The Nineteenth Cen
tury of an army chaplain who invoked
the aid of the sergeant-major In getting
the men to turn to the east when say
ing the creed. "Now, men,” said the
sergeant major, and the mere sound of
his voice was electric. No little band lxoy
now lolled on the choir desk. The third
fingers of the hands were on the seams
of the trousers and the heads erect. Even
the man struggling with the bassoon sat
to attention. The sergeant-major pro
ceeded: “When you ’ear the ’old man
say ‘H’i b’lieve’ not a move—them words
is only cautionary; but when ’e starts on
‘Gord the Father,’ round yer go on yer
’eels.” Then the chaplain, “Now, sir;
you try.” The chaplain was W’ise enough
to note that the sacred words had been
uttered and received in perfect good faith
and without a semblance of profanity, so
he thanked the sergeant-major and Hied
forthwith. Success was instantaneous.
It Want.
A wild-eyed man dashed into the sanc
tum. says the Cleve:and Plain Dealer.
“I’ve did it—l should say dona it!” he
cried.
The editor reached for his remember the
Maine paper weight.
“Did—done what?” he queried.
“Found a rhyme for Santiago.”
“Let's hear it?” said the editor, still
holding the paper weight.
The stranger cleared his throat.
“Listen,” he said. Then he read It out
as follows:
“ ‘The Dons will find the Yankee pig has
Grown to be a hog, oh,
Ere he gets through a-rooting In
The town of Santiago.’ ”
The stranger looked up with a wide
smde.
“Does it go?” he merrily asked.
“It goes when you go," said the unfeel
ing editor?
And it went.
A Compliment Wanted.
Lord Lytton when viceroy of India, says
the San Francisco Argonaut, was seated
one day at dinner next to a lady whose
name was Birch, and who, though very
good looking, was not over intelligent. Said
she to his excellency: "Are you acquainted
with any of the Birches?”
"Oh, yes,” replied Lord Lytton; “I know
several of thun most intimately while at
Eton—lndeed, more Intimately than I cared
to."
“My lord,” replied the lady, “you forget
the Birches are relatives of mine."
“And they ciit me,” said the viceroy;
"but,” and he smiled his wonted smile, ”1
have never felt more Inclined to kiss the
rod than I do now.”
Sad to say, Mrs. Birch did not see the
point, and told her husband his excellency
,_itad insulted her, .
itCms of interest.
—The earliest records of cannon being
used on shipboard give the date of about
1488.
—The United States first produced Har
veyized nickel steel armor, which is now
the standard of the world.
—Greater progress has been made in
ordnance during the past 35 years than
during the preceding five centuries.
—The earliest cannons were breech-load
ers. Then followed muzzle-loaders, the
breech-loading rifles, followed by muzzle*,
loading rifles, and. finally, as at present,
again breech-loading rifles.
—ln calibrating the sights of modern
guns it is neecssary to allow for the drift
of the projectile. The rotation of the pro
jectile caused by ihe rifling gives a devia
tion to one side or the other, according
as to whether the rifling is right or left
handed.
—ln the Church of the Madeleine, in
Paris, a large representation of ‘The Last
Supper,” with a vision of the scene on
Cavalry above it. was painted by M. Paul
Breham for the ceremonies of holy week.
The canvas is transparent, and the colors
are prepared in such a manner as to per
mit of illumination from the back by
means of electricity, and the figures as
sume a relief w hich otherwise would be
impracticable.
—The virtues of British medicines must
be getting known throughout the Shan
states, say the Allahabad Pioneer. The
following is a copy of a letter from a
w’el] known Shan princess to “The Medi
cal Officer” in charge of one of the can
tonments in the Shan state: “Kindly
supply me the under-mentioned medicines
by bearer, as 1 am unwell, being foil
dow’n from an elephant, and oblige. One
does of smelling-sal', one does for curing
headache, one does for curing the pain at
neck.”
—ln a table of standard ordnance one
often sees various abbreviations, which
are sometimes quite puzzling. Of the com
monest ones seen are B. L. R., which
means breech-load.hg rifle. S. B. stands
for smoothbore. M. L. indicates muzzle
loading; Q. F.. quick firing. Another sym
bol that is often encountered is “Mark
I” or “Mark II,” etc. This indicates that
the gun is of a certain standard pattern
and has rifling of a certain character.
For instance. Mark’ll, 6-in. B. L. R. in
dicates a certain construction of breech
loading rifle, with a 6-inch bore. These
marks are stamped on the gun body, and
are important in determining the strength
of charge they are capable of withstand
ing and the character of projectile they
are intended to fire.
—One of the new phases of electricity
about shipyards is for electrical riveting,
this being claimed to be a more efficient
system than either the pneumatic or hy
draulic. If a central generating station
and system of transmission wires is al
ready a part of the yard, and there are
very few yards where this is not the con
dition, electrical riveters will be less ex
pensive than laying down any other sys
tem. As regards quantity of work, an
electrical machine is stated to do 1,200
rivets in a day of ten hours with three
men and a boy. The electrical riveting
machine can be moved about at will and
will work in any position. The pressure
of the die for various sizes of work is
easily regulated in the machine by an
electro-magnetic clutch, so that only the
necessary amount of work is done to suit
the size of rivet.
—The maximum pressure produced by
cordite in an inclosed space is from 170
to 190 tons per square inch. With the old
pow’ders in an inclosed space the pressure
did not exceed 43 tons per square inch,
and in guns the maximum pressure that
has yet been in ’practical use is 17 tons.
With the introduction of wire-wound guns
pressures as high as 30 to 40 tons per
square inch may be used, with a conse
quent increase in penetrative power of the
shot fired. For instance, if the pressure
were merely increased to 27 tons from 17,
as at present, the penetrative power would
be increased 57 per cent., and ihe gun
could be made much smaller. A 40-fooc
gun built on this system could be reduced
in length to 24.5 feet, and its weight there
by decreased over 20 per cent., with the
above noted increase in power. It is in
this direction that the greatest improve
ments in ordnance in the future may be
looked for.
—A writer In the Tobacco Gazette says
the newest thing in smoking is the amber
pipe, and it is very beautiful. The amber
pipe bowl is merely the outer envelope,
so to speak, in which the real tobacco
receptacle, which is of meerschaum, re
poses. But one smoking such a pipe seems
to an onlooker to be inhaling his smoke
from tobacco actually burning in amber.
The theory that our ancestors of one hun
dred and more years ago were altogether
more luxurious in their smoking and snuf
fing utensils is one which writers on such
subjects appear to be fond of circulating.
These gentlemen tel-1 marvelous tales of
snuffboxes presented by kings and queens
to ambassadors, papal nuncios and other
high and mighty personages with W’hom
it w r as their temporary interest "to stand
well. I have seen some of the finest of
these historic snuffboxes and they never
impressed me as being either very costly
or too highly astistic. However, lei that
be as it may, I maintain that the rich
tobacco lovers of our own time are far
more extravagant than their forefathers.
Several jewelers’ shops on Broadway ind
Fifth avenue have windows in which there
is always a liberal display of gold-mounted
pipes and cigar and cigarette cases, many
of which are adorned with diamonds,
rubies, emeralds and sapphires. There
must be a steady market for these high
priced goods, else jewelers wouldn't make
ihem.
—A letter sent from New York to Bang
kok, Siam, travels overland to San Fran
cisco and thence by water, reaching its
destination in about forty-three days, hav
ing been carried nearly 13,000 miles. A
letter mailed here for Adelaide, Australia,
also goes via San Francisco, travels 12,-
845 miles, and is delivered usually within
thirty-five days. New Y’ork mail destin
ed for Calcutta goes by way of London,
traveling 11,120 miles in iwenty-nine (lays,
while mail sent from this city to Cape
Town, South Africa, goes 125 miles fur
ther in two days' less time. Mail com
munication between New York and Hong
Kong ordinarily consumes one month of
time; the letters go by way of San Fran
cisco, and cover 10,500 miles of distance.
To reach Melbourne, Australia, from this
city a letter will travel 12,265 miles in about
thirty-two days, and to reach Sydney a
letter will travel 11,570 miles in thirty-one
days. The mail route from New York
to Yokohama, via San Francisco, is 7,318
miles long, and about twenty-two days
are consumed in transit. To go to Hon
olulu from this city a letter travels 5,645
miles, in thirteen days. Leaving New
York on steamer days, mail matter is
scheduled to reach Rome in about ten
days, Madrid in ten days, London and
Liverpool in eight days, Rotterdam in
nine days, St. Petersburg in eleven days,
Vienna in nine days, Paris in eight days!
Berlin In nine days, and Athens and Alex
andria in fourteen days. Communication
with South American ports is much slow
er. It takes twenty-four days for a let
ter to go from New York to Rio Janeiro,
which is only about fifty miles further
from this city than Is Alexandria. Mail
matter going from New York to Buenos
Ayres, which is 8,045 miles distant, con
sumes thcmi-utjic or thirty days.
ITCHING
DISEASES
Chronic Eczema spread all over my head.
I had two doctors and tried lotions, but re
ceived little benefit. The dreadful itching
became almost intolerable, and when I was
heated, the Eczema became painful, and
almost distracted me. Tried Cuticura Rkm
edies, the Eczema rapidly disappeared, and 1
am well with no trace of any cutaneous disease
J. EMMETT liEEVES,
Feb. 22, ’9B. Box 125, Thomtown, Ind.
Was afflicted with an itching rash all over
my body. I could not sleep, but was com
pelled to lie awake and scratch all the time.
My fat her aud two brothers were afflicted with
the same thing. AVe all suffered terribly for
a year and a half. Three cakes of Cuticura
Soap and three boxes of Cuticura (ointment)
cured the four of us completely.
Feb. 22, 1898. RICHARD ANDERSON,
Geneva, Box Elder Cos., Utah.
My hands were completely covered with
Eczema, and between my fingers the skin was
perfectly raw. I could get no ease night or
day. I was in a rage of itching. My husband
had to dress and undress me like a baby.
The best physicians’ medicines gave me no
relief, and drove me almost crazy. I used
the Cuticura (ointment), and five minutes
after the first application I was perfectly easy,
and slept soundly all that night, and I have not
had the Eczema in two years.
AGNES M. HARRIS. Push, Va.
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fiotrino Humors, with Loss of Haib. —Warm baths
with Cuticura Soap, Entitle anointings with Cutici ka
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