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AT HOME WITH THE MAILED FIST.
It Rests Lightly Upon the Heads of Ilis Wife
and Children.
The German Emperor anil Ml* Domestic Itelatlona—Hi*‘Life One of rtcg
nlnrltj —Tlie Officio! Income—An Fn*y Time for Hie Utile Prince*.
Jinny Petition* From Be**nr—The Knl*erln a Pencefnl Home
Body— Not Dlstnrheil by I)i|iloninlic Itellltlon*.
New York, Aug. 12.—Tile writer had the
pleasure of standing in the hallway of
the new palace at Potsdam a few weeks
ago, under pleasant and unusual condi
tions. Asa decorator, one of a party sent'
by a firm in Berlin, permission had been
obtained to inspect the royal halls.
It was afternoon—precisely 5 o'clock—
the hour when the German royal family
take tea In the small dining room in the
right wing of the palace. At the door
stood the KaUerin, with her seven chil
dren grouped around her. Galloping up
the broad roadway, leading to the main
entrance, was approaching the Kaiser,
wtih his hunting guard back of him. To
his right and to his left were the military
guards, without whom he never stirs out!
The Kaiser's restive black horse was danc
ing furiously with the home scent inflat
ing his notrils, and the Kaiser himself
seemed Impatient.
At the foot of the Eteps his majesty
sprang from his horse and flung the
bridle Into the hands of a groom, reach
ing down he pulled off his spurs and flung
them at another groom with a wave of lus
great hunting glove. The guard dismissed
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The Emperor's Favorite Group Picture. Photographed From a Painting tn the Library at Potsdam.
fode away, and the Kaiser turned without
even a backward look at the faithful mop
who had ridden up the roadway with him.
He dashed up the steps and Into the arms
of the Kalscrin.
The decorators turned away their eyes
but they need not have done so, for the
Kaiser had no thought or intention of a
secret caress. He kept his arm around
the Kalserin while the two walked
through the hallway, and with his
dangling arm he patted the head of first
one clamoring little Prince and then an
other. The little girl trotted in front of
him, a bonnie sight with her flaxen hair
and her bright red cheeks.
The royal family disappeared Into the
tea room beyond, and then glancing
townward at the floor I saw lying at the
fery spot where the Kaiser had entered
| ihe doorway, a rough, yellow gauntlet em
[ iroldered with Jewels. It was the mailed
The Kaiser had thrown it aside when
he entered the home of his wife and fam
ily.
Wilhelm ll—second to none, as his ene
mies love to call him—takes his meals whh
the regularity of an American clerk. He
breakfasis with his wife alone at 7 o'clock
every morning, one hour after her majesty
rises to prepare the coffee. At 1 o'clock
he has q good German dinner cooked from
i bill ox fare laid out by the same feminine
hands. At 5 o'clock he has tea. a fondness
for which he inherits from h!s English
mother, and at 8 the German royal family
sits down to supper, which consists of arti
cles such as might be purchased cooked
from any German delicatessen In New'
York city.
Out of his home the Kaiser may be am
bitious and erratic, but as soon as he
walks under the arch of the Potsdam pal
ace he is a strictly family man.
There is probably no man in the public
eye, wilh Ihe single exception of Bis
marck, who is fading on the vision, who
has and has had os few personalities away
from home as the Kaiser Wilhelm. Mar
ried in February, 1881, upon his twenty
second birthday, he has devoted his life
from that day to this to the woman upon
whom he bestowed his hand.
Frederick William Victor Albert, eldest
son of ihe late Emperor Frederick 111. was
bom in Berlin, Jan. 27. 1869. On Feb. 27,
1881, he was married to Princess Augusta
Victoria Amelia Ixjuise Marie Constance,
daughter of the Grand Duke of Schleswig-
Holstein -Sonderburg-A ugusit-nburg.
Asa true Hohenzollern he was educated
more with reference to the duties of a
soldier than to the demands which might
be made upon him as a statesman. How
ever, when he left the University of Bonn
the aradetnte rector declar<d he had shown
all those good qualities by which his an
cestors had become great. The students
proposed his health with honors, includ
ing the singing of the famous old song,
"Bemooster Burse he ziet ich aus.”
His fattier, who subsequently became
Emperor Frederick 111, had studied at the
same university with the Duke of Hol
stein, and it was white he was at Bonn
that young Prince William first met the
daughter of his father's old fellow stu
dent, which resulted In the marriage aliove
named In 188 J.
The Crown Prince was too young to fol
low his father to the war against France
or rather his father was too wise to seek
for him a "baptism of lire" s.milar to that
which the son of Napoleon 111 experienced
in front of Saarbrucken. This fuel, how
ever, did not preveut Ulm from becoming
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. AUGUST 14, 1893.
a leading military spirit among the royal
! families of Europe.
Princess Augusta Victoria, Princess of
Schleswig - Holstein - Sonderburg - Au
gustenburg. was, at that time a simple
German Princess, three months older than
the "Kaiser.
Thirty-nine years ago Augusta was born
at Dolzig, in Silesia. Her father was a
grand duke, but, as we know, although
the offspring of certain German grand
dukes may tie born to the purple, the pur
ple is sometimes threadbare. The Herzog
Friedrich von Schleswig-Holstein was not
a rich man,even as German potentates go,
and his children were brought up in a
very simple way. Augusta Victoria was
well educated as to books, and very thor
oughly educated as to household matters,
and tn this respect her training did not
differ from that of most other German
girls.
She had not the slightest idea in her
early days that she should become the
consort of the mightiest sovereign in
Western Europe. Indeed, the German em
pire did not come Into existence till she
was In her thirteenth year, and even
when she married there was but a small
chance that her husband would ascend
the throne, except, perhaps, In old age.
The venerable Em;>eror William seemed
to have many years of life before him,
and next In ord<r came the Crown Prince
Frederick, for whom everybody prophesied
a long and great career. But the unex
pected happens to royal folk, as It does
to humbler persons, and seven years after
the sw-eet Princess of Schleswig-Holstein
had married Frederick's son, she had be
come an Empress,-*
It was at Prinkenau, then the home of
the Grand Duke Frederick, and now the
family mansion of his son, Duke Ernst
Gunther of Schleswig-Ilolstein-Augusten
burg, that the young Prince William first
saw the young lady who was to become
his wdfe.
She was skilled in the arts of household
wifery, and though by no means com
pelled to f ook and bake and keep house,
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she had been taught all and with them
had gained the health which meant so
much to the German empire.
Young Prince Wilhelm at that time
hail begun to show signs of independence
and progress, and many, therefore, were
the good words expressed for the young
couple. They were married In Berlin In
February, and the following week went
to Potsdam, where they have since resid
ed, with the exception of the few months
annually spent at the court of Berlin.
Potsdam Is just away from Berlin, a sub
urb, although It has 50,000 Inhabitants. It
spreads over a great deal of land and Is
quite countrified, as you drive through it.
in the loveliest portion of Potsdam,
where lakes intercept the beautiful roll
ing country, stands the new palace as p |*
called, although It was built by Frederick
the Great.
In this palace the Mailed Fist rests. He
sixmds his year there with the exception
of such time as is actually required of
him at Berlin, During three months of the
year only, he Is away from Polsdam, and
save three months more, when he makes
semi-weekly trips to Potsdam, reaching
home for the tea. at t o'clock. During the
Emperor Wilhelm, when he enters his
own home, throws aside ferociiy, but
takes up extravagance. He acts quite the
contrary to the popular Idea of him, show
ing hardness and frugality; for he is one
of most extravagant men that ever
breathed under a family tree. The palace,
when he took it, was an old ruin, with only
one part habitable. Now he has a palace
that is one in fact as well as in name;
and from steps to turret it is a marvel
In elegant furnishings and luxurious fres
coes. In summer he has it repaired; and
he and the Kalser'.n never tire of walking
through the room.-- suggesting this and
planning that Improvement.
When unfortunate selections of furniture
are made they are speedily discarded, and
In the lodges, as we would call them,
which guard the entrances to the palace
grounds, there are beautiful specimens of
household decoration that have been pur
chased by the Kaiser and thrown aside
because they did not harmonize with the
rest of ihe house.
Though somewhat economical tn his
dress outside the house, the Kaiser is
lavish in his elegance at home. He has
every kind of smoking jacket and every
variety of dressing gown. His slippers are
more numerous than the days of the year
and his pipes and smoking articles fill
three smoking rooms in different parts of
Ihe palace.
The Kaiser scorns the Idea of being
economical with himself and family at
home,and since his accession to the throne
nine year* ago, he has continually applied
to the Reichstag for an increase in sal
ary. He says that he cannot live as be
comes an emperor of these times, on the
amount that annually comes to him; and
he has shown them that an emperor with
three or four children required only half
the money of one ut the present day with
six little princes and one princess. So
strong were his words and so convincing
were his argument* that he secured a
large Increase to his annual salary. To
this was added a large amount called the
"donation fund,” The "donation fund"
is for the yearly distribution of the
Kaiser.
We now have the total of Kaiser Wil
helm's official income.
Marks.
Prussian civil list 15,719,200
Prussian donaiion fund 1,500,000
For the civil cabinet 122,260
Reich's donation fund 1,500,000
For the adjutants (paid by the
reich) 88,500
Total 18,929,966
The 18,929,966 marks are payable quar
terly In advance like taxes, for the Em
peror takes no chances of losing his wages
by the possible intervention of war or
revolution, as his great-grandfather Fred
erick William 111 did when Napoleon
marched upon Berlin. And 18,929,966 marks
looks like a comfortable income, especial
ly when it is considered that his majesty
lives rent free in palaces built by the peo
ple, and has not even a speaking acquaint
ance with the festive tax collector.
Every morning at Potsdam the court
carriers come riding to the palace with
great bags of mall. These are largely
begging letters. A good German widow
of a German soldier needs shoes that she
may send her boys to school. They will
become, In time, good soldiers In his
majesty's army. Another contains a piea
from a woman whose daughter has a mag
nificent voice and who will become a sec
ond Lind If she has a chance. The Kaiser
in Is deeply moved by the appeal and
wishes something sent to the woman.
It is manifest that if hundreds of these
dally draw upon his purse the Kaiser
would soon be a penniless sovereign, there
fore, upon reading these appeals the
Reichstag decided to devote an annual
sum to these people, and moveover, it ap
pointed two salaried officers to read ihe
appeals and proportion out the donations
to them.
The popular belief Is that the hand of
the Mailed Fist rests heavily upon his
boys, the little Princess, who have been
trained by knowledge and rigor to the
facts of public life. On the contrary, the
Emperor Is easy with them, and Is much
more indulgent personally and, through
the tutors, than the average Englishman
Is to his children. The Kaiser allows his
sons to sleep on soft feather beds with
feather beds over them In good German
fashion. They can oat all products of the
field and dairy. They can travel as long
as they desire, so as it does not take them
out of Prussia: and as for animals and
playthings, they can have anything under
the sun they see.
The writer had the pleasure of inspect
ing the play room devoted to the mechani
cal toys of the Princes. There he saw
small war vessels steaming upon little
ponds of water. There he beheld railroad
trains being propelled along tracks. There
he also saw military Implements and every
device of which German electricians and
scientists are capable. These are all sent
In to the German patent office, and after
wards to the Emperor's for his criticism.
Such of them as please the young Princes
are copied and built, with the kind consent
of the Inventor.
The Mailed Fist may tie indiscreet on
Ihe hunting ground and In the sea, but
it is as soft at home as that of the little
Princess. The motto of the Kaiserin is
the three great K's-V'Klrche, Kinder und
Keuche,” and to church, children and
kitchen does the Empress devote herself.
His majesty approves of this motto and
though It is not upon the walls of his
library as 11 Is upon the walls of his wife's
boudoir, the fact that he has adopted no
other at home shows that it Is sufficient
for him.
The Kalserin Is the most peaceful home
body that ever was seen. When she came
to the palace at Berlin to be a bride, she
held an hour's consultation before the
ceremony with the Empress Augusta, the
grandmother of the present Emperor. The
old lady, patting her upon her shoulder,
said, "My ilear, be wise and do not follow
my example, I learned all the intrigue of
the court when 1 came here, and I became
a secret counsellor. Bismarck and the
Em|>eror have consulted me for forty
years. Be wise, my dear, and avoid
knowledge. Would that X had been told
to learn nothing. Govern your home and
your family and let war alone and so will
you be a wise and happy woman.”
This counsel the Empress has followed.
She knows nothing of year, or if she does
she keeps it to herself. The day that Ger
many took possession of a part of China
and stationed Us big warships there to
keep away the Chinese from her land, the
Empress donning a pretty military cos
tume, as though it were a time of court
fete Instead of court worry, rode at the
head of her regiment, and passed the Em
peror twice during the parade. Her waist
of military cloth, with cherry red collar,
her bright coat flaps and beautiful skirt
made a uniform as attractive as was ever
worn by a lady colonel. After the review
the Emperor shook hands with her, and
the two went away to Potsdam for a gayer
fete.
She has never been disturbed about the
Emperor's relations with the United States
and it is doubtful if she knows, beyond
geography', that such a country exists.
She wears French gowns on state occa
sion, bought for her by the Emperor, but
for every day she wears those made by
her own seamstress.
The sons are taught state matters by
tutors, who mould their opinion from day
to day, according to the Emperor’s pre
cepts. For years they hated Bismarck,
now they love him and see him with their
best eyes. Frederick Wilhelm, the crown
Prince, is 16 years old; Eitel Frederick is
15 years old; Adalbert Is 14 years old; Au
gustus is 11 years old; Oscar is not quite
10. and Joseph is less than 8. The little
girl, Victoria Louise, born in 1892, Is look
ing forward to her sixth birthday.
With this interesting family around him
the Kaiser is concerned principally in
bringing them up well. When away from
home his main thought is to secure for
them a strong kingdom and a fine compe
tence for life. If he can increase the do
main of the German kingdom and add to
Its riches, he feels that the country will
reward him by increasing his salary and
bestowing large sums upon the Princes
when they marry.
In the Kaiser’s study is a beautiful pic
ture of little Queen Wiihelmina. She is
17 years old, two years older than Eitel
Frederick, with whom her name is fre
quently linked! Carl T. Fischer.
WATCHING FOIt TORNADOES.
Report Soon Coming From AVest In
dies nnd Caribbean Stations.
From the Washington Post.
In a few days the first reports from the
new stations established throughout the
West Indies and Caribbean seaports will
be received at the weather bureau. As
has been stated in the Post, these sta
tions have been established on foreign ter
ritory for the purpose of giving warning
to vessels of our navy and our merchant
marine of the approach of the tornadoes
or hurricanes which have their origin off
the northern coast of South America and
sweep the southern seaboard of the United
States.
Prof. Park Morrill, chief of the forecast
division of the weather bureau, is critic
ally ill at his home with typhoid fever,and
Prof. Willis Moore, chief of the bureau,
has summoned Prof. E. B. Garribtt, from
Chicago, to take charge of the division. To
this division will come all the reports from
the new stations. Speaking of the new sta
tions yesterday, Prof. Garriott said:
“Observers have arrived at Santiago,
Port of Spain, Trinilad, Santa Domingo
city, and Kingston, Jam., which will be
the headquarters of the new stations. In
a few days observers will arrive at St.
Thomas, Baranguilla, Barbadoes and Cu
racao,, and one will sail for St. Kitts, or
St. Christopuher Island, on next Wednes
day. The plan is to have all reports ren
dered to the central office at Kingston, and
by that office to this bureau.
“The reports can be made very rapidly
and little delay is anticipated. Mr. W. B.
Stockman, who Is in charge of the central
office at Kingston, is an expert forecaster,
and has been in the service for many years.
At the first indication of any disturbance
he will receive a report and will at once
transmit It to this office. We will communi
cate all messages of this sort to Capt.
Crowninshield, of the bureau of navigation
by special messages at any hour of the day
or night. He will at once communicate with
the navy, having excellent facilities for
that service. In addition to this it will be
the duty of all of our observers to give the
widest publicity to the news of the ap
proach of a storm In the sections where
they are located. This Is necessary be
cause land interests frequently suffer as
much as the shipping from these tropical
storms.
"So far this new arrangement is simply
an emergency organization. It will be per
fected and put into operation at the ear
liest possible date. The entire service will
probably be in operation, with the excep
tion of St. Kitts, within the next ten days.
It sometimes happens that a season which
extends from August to October passes
without a storm, but there is always dan
ger from them, nnd when they <jio start
they frequently follow one another in ra
pid succession. These storms are the same
as the typhoons of the east.”
Prof. Garriott entered the service of the
weather bureau in 1871, and since then
has been In the central office here off and
on for ten years. His first station was tn
Portland, Me., where he was assistant ob
server for a year and a half. He was then
placed temporarily tn charge of the Mil
waukee station, going from there to Buf
falo, N. Y. He served a little over two
years in Rochester, one year In Pittsburg,
two years in Louisville, two years in New
York, and three years In Chicago, being
in charge of the stations at each place.
His present detail he considers temporary.
He was called here by telegram to take
Prof. Morrill's place.
THE MISSING MISER.
Continuer From Page Eighteen*
Holding Frank tightly by the arm, she
went with him to the hearth and there be
held a huddltd up, shrivelled corpse, the
half-mummified foce of which was awful
to look upon, but In all Its hideous mock
ery of death was recognized as that of her
missing uncle, the long-lost Gregory Gar
low.
Poor Mary had clung so tenaciously to
the idea that her uncle stiil liyed that the
tragic discovery of his murdered remains,
with the subsequent inquiry, was a terri
ble shock to her, and made Vine Cottage
Impossible any longer as a home; and she,
and her husband, whose pictures are win
ning him a reputation, with their baby
Greg are at present living lr a beautiful
villa on the shores of thy hhediterranean,
near Genoa.
The time and soot-stained wiil found in
the old man's pocket, gave all of which
he died possessed to his grand-niece, Mary
Mardeau, as the only living representative
of his beloved sister, Mary Garlow.
The End.
—One of many—Thompson—"You look
pale and thin, Johnson, Why will you per
sist In killing yourself working night and
day such weather as this?” Johnson—"l
hm trying to earn money enough to pay
the expenses of a week's rest in the coun
try.”—New York Weekly,
HOW A SHELL DOES ITS WORK.
MURDEROUS EFFECT OF THE MOD
ERN SHRAPNEL.
No More Round Solid Shot—Three
Kinds of Projectile* Nowadays Are
Hollow nnd Conical—A “Shell'? Les
son for the Layman to Read.
Washington, Aug. 12.
J— - 1 Not one man in a thousand
who talks and hears about
r a "shelling" the enemy
has any but the vaguest
Idea of h<m ' sheliing Is
either with reference
g-y 1 fl to the gun or , the shell.
ni°y u C a y‘Wold soldiers can* tell
Bia ' RGisomething about the oper
fc**x*’j jß* yf ation, but their
K3QS edge ia confined to ths
ttl 3'ifili round shot of the civil war,
fs'Tl F r 1-1 a Projectile which Is not
used at all now, having
displaced by the con
ical projectile. Indeed, the
InTerior man who had a fair knowl-
Construct- edge of artillery ten years
Shrapneh h ° ago and has not kei,t I>ace
with the advance in the
art of war cannot have a clear idea ot
the modern gun and projectile.
Leaving the gun out of the question,
it Is here the purpose lo tell how a pro
jectile does its work. By a projectile is
meant a shell which contains a charge
sufficient to explode it. Solid shot is used
in warfare no longer. This is, first, be
cause such a shot cannot be used for
shelling, and second, even if it Is not de-
Explosion of an Armor-piercing Shell.
sired to use it as a shell, it Is still neces
sary to leave a hollow on the inside, for a
shot so constructed is tougher and lees
subject to strain in its penetrative powers.
Shell is of three kinds —armor piercing,
common, for use mainly against land fort
ifications, and case, or, as it is called now
adays, shrapnel.
As to the first essential of armor-pierc
ing shell, its power to penetrate the best
armor made, this is secured by two means
—the process of construction by which
the projectile Is sufficiently hardened,
which process it is not necessary to give
in detail here, and the soft cap on the
head. The first requires merely the special
hardening process on the part of the steel
manufacturer.
But when in all other respects the pro
jectile was made which w'ould enter and
break up the best quality of armor plate,
it was found that it would not deliver an
effective glancing blow. Such an impact
caused the projectile to slide off. This was
a serious objection, and for a time no way
of overcoming it could be devised. But
after a while American Ingenuity found
the way. We all know how a needle may
be driven through a cent mereiy by press
ing it first through a cork until the point
of the needle is flush with the end of the
cork. This holds the needle upright, and
Insures the force of the blow being deliv
ered directly upon the point. So a wise
man discovered that by placing a soft
metal cap upon the end of the hardest
pointed projectile the entire force of that
projectile would be exerted at the point,
and this independent of whether the blow
was direct or glancing. Besides this, the
enormous heat generated by the impact
melted the lead cap, which greased the
way of the projectile, and made the work
of penetration easier.
As has been said, nearly all armor-pierc
ing projectiles are shells, and, therefore,
explosive. This latter result is caused in
two ways—by the heat of Impact, and, as
Is far more often the case, by what is
called a delayed action fuse. This fuse is
so contructed that it begins its work at
the moment of impact, but does not com
plete it for an appreciable length of time
after the shell has passed through the ar
mor. Without entering upon a detail de
scription of the fuse, it is enough to say
that at the instant of impact the hammer
caused the ignition of the primer, and the
flame is communicated to a flat washer of
prepared powder, which burns from the
edge toward the center, so that a second
or two ia required to communicate the
flame to the bursting charge, the ex
plosion of which breaks up the shells. It is
just such shells as this which were used
by our fleet in the destruction of Cervera’s.
This shell will penetrate the best armor
of a thicknes of 1% times Us own diame
ter.
Common shell is made of cast iron, and
contains a large bursting charge. This
shell is not Intended for armor piercing,
but rather for use upon land fortifications,
where it is necessary to destroy objects
of only ordinary resistance power, and In
cidentally the men around those objects.
The shell has a blunt point. It is exploded
either by time fuse or by a percussion
fuse, or both, in which case the fuse is
called o combination fuse. The time fuse
is cut to burn a certain number of sec
onds, varying with the time required for
the shell lo pass over the distance from
the gun to the object aimed at. The per
cussion fuse explodes upon impact, and
the principle Is the same a9 the percussion
cap used on the old muskets of the civil
war days.
The deadliest shell known Is the'shrap
nel, named from Us Inventor, Col. Shrap
nel of the British army, who devised it In
1803. In brief, it Is a hollow projectile filled
with lead balls, which nre scattered by an
explosion caused either by a time fuse or
by a percussion fuse, or by both. In a
combination fuse. The head and base cf
the shell arc of cast iron. The fuse is
placed in either end, and in the larger
shells it Is inserted usually in the base
A five-inch shrapnel contains 280 half-inch
balls, and altogether 344 separate piece?
The shell Itself with all it contains furl
nishes over 550 implements of death. The
balls are separated by conical holders
which keep the balls rigid till the moment
of dispersion, and which contribute th ir
fragments to the deadly volley. Shrapnel
ir, effective at a range of more than two
miles, and .the best time for it to explode
is w'hen the shell is six yards above and
fifty yards In front of the enemy.
Like the tommon shell, the fuse of the
shrapnel is usually of the combination
kind, so that if the time fuse for any rea
son does not explode the bursting charge
the force of the impact certainly will
The space covered by the flight of the
missiles ir called the area of dispersion
and at 200 yards this area Is about thirty
by forty feet. The missiles have enough
penetrating power to use up any man or
men within that area.
Speaking generally 'the modern shell
moves at the rate of about half a mile a
second, and practically in a Straight lino.
In the civil war a soldier under fire could
actually see the shells in the air and
could often dodge them successfully; but
one could no more dodge the shell of to
day than he could get out of the way of
a stroke of lightning from heaven. On
striking armor the shell and the armor
Deeome red hot, nnd a sheet of flame
hursts forth. A shell bursting near a man
tears his clothes off, merely from the
windage. If it comes very near, but doesn't
touch him, it will kill him from the shock.
The burning charge of a shell is a little
less than half the charge of powder In
the gun. Thus, an eight-inch shell re
quires 300 pounds to send it forth from
the gun and a bursting charge of 123
pounds. The proportions in larger shells
are—ten-inch, 575 and 250 pounds; twelve
inch, I.COO and 520 pounds; and the big
sixteen-inch gun, to be finished soon, 2,-
350 and 1,050 pounds.
The fuses for the shells cost from $4 to
$lB, according to their size and construc
tion.
The cruiser New Orleans, which was
bought abroad with her armament and
ammunition, is the only one of our men.
of-war besides the Newark which uses
smokeless powder. In the army, at thd
outset of the war, a small amount of
smokeless powder was issued, but now
nothing but the smokeless kind Is being
sent out by the ordnance department. In
small arms the Krag-Jorgensen rifles and
carbines uso smokeless powder in their
cartridges, and 1 1*> Springflelds of the
volunteers nre fired with the ordinary
powder, which makes a telltale smoke!
greatly to the disadvantage of our men.
Shrapnel can be fired from the naval
guns as well as from the 3.2-inch field
guns and from the larger siege guns, but
its only use in the navy would be In shell
ing land fortifications at a comparatively
short range. For this purpose common
shell usually is used. In the fatal fight of
the Texas with the Socapa battery at the
entrance to Santiago harbor the day of
the landing of Shatter's corps, the supply
of common shell had failed and the bat
tleship was forced to use the armor-pierc
ing shell, which, though explosive, wa9
not as effective as the common shell
would have been. When the Texas had
done her work and drew off inquiries were
signaled from the flagship if she wanted
any help, and the reply was that not help,
but common shell, was wanted.
From the siege guns and the field ar
tillery used in the land bombardment of
Santiago shrapnel and common shell were
fired, tho former at the Spanish soldiers
and the latter to destroy the batteries,
and houses In which the enemy had taken
refuge. C. S. ftussell.
LEMONS AS A MEDICINE.
They regulate the Liver, Stomach, Bow
els, Kidneys and Blood as prepared by Dr.
H. Mozley, in his Lemon Elixir, a pleasant
lemon drink. It cures bilousness, consti
pation, Indigestion, headache, malaria,
kidney disease, fevers, chills, impurities
of the blood, pain in the chest, heart fail
ure and all other diseases caused by a
torpid or diseased liver and kidneys—nine
tenth of all the diseases of the South and
West are caused by the failure of the liver
and kidneys to do their duty. It is an es
tablished fact that lemons, when combin
ed properly with other liver tonics, pro
duce the most desirable results upon the
stomach, liver, bowels, kidneys and blood
Sold by druggists, 50c and $1 bottles.
MOSLEY'S LEMON ELIXIR
Cured me of stek and nervous headache,
I had been subject to all my life. Mrs. N.
A. McEnttre, Springs Place, Ga.
MOSLEY’S LEMON ELIXIR
Cured me of indigestion. X got more re
lief, and at once, from Lemon Elixir than
all other medicines. J. C. Speights, In
dian Springs, Ga.
MOSLEY'S LEMON ELIXIR
Cured meu of a long-standing case of
chills and fever, by using two bottles. J.
C Stanlev, Engineer E. TANARUS., Va. and Ga.
R. H.
MOSLEY’S LEMON ELIXIR
Cured me of a long-standing case of
Indigestion of four years’ standing. I
tried a dozen different medicines. Nona
but Lemon Elixir done me any good. Tules
Diehl, corner Habersham and St. Thomas
streets, Savannah, Ga.
MOSLEY’S LEMON ELIXIR
I fully Indorse it for nervous headache.
Indigestion und constipation, having used
it with most satisfactory results, after n.l
other remedies had failed. J. W. Rol tg
West End, Atlanta, Ga.—ad.
—Mme. Sealchl, the famous contralt'N
will make a tour of the principal cities of
the United States next seas*