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LOADING BIG GUNS
They Get Quick Action on the
Modern Monster Warship.
STORY OF A PRACTICE DRILL
What Happened After the Order to
•‘Fire!" Was Very Different From
What Would Have Occurred Had
Cordite and Projectiles Been Used.
The order is given to load. Someone
touches n lever, and with n hiss a mass
of bright steel turns and twists back,
and the breech of the gun gapes open
Another touch on the lever, and from
beside you a hydraulic r.im snoots out
like a golden tongue into the bteech
and immediately > b-K- again
All is clear. Now. a.r ; —v feet,
a hole gapes in the tit. . <> :V ,r et
there is a slat aud eras! ■:£ r .a ■
as you look down into tin >
a small lift traveling up - c red
ible rapidity and infernal c: .ter bear¬
ing on it the immense projectile, weigh¬
ing more than seven hundredweight,
and. in another compartment, the two
cartridges of cordite.
Dp comes the lift, locks itself with a
crash and spills out the projectile on a
metal tray in line with the open breech.
The golden tongue of the rammer
shoots out again and pushes the pro¬
jectile into the gaping breech, extend¬
ing itself apparently indefinitely until
the projectile has disappeared. The
lift shifts a little, bringing into line
with the gun its other compartment,
which contains the two half charges,
each a cylinder holding 130 pounds of
cordite. Out shoots the ram again,
with no more respect for them than if
they had been sponges, and pushes
them steadily home behind the projec¬
tile. and, having done its deadly busi
ness, retires again out of the way to be
ready for another cycle of the same op
erations.
Half a turn of the wheel, and the
breech block swings home with a sigh
and a click. “Right gun loaded, sir.”
Now you wait in suspense, “d a
in the conning tower give 4 -’ n, oge—
8.500 yards. The gun lay* u- -
corner has all this time u 1- • Lv. Lis
eye from the glass. He turns
wheel, aud the whole turiet
round over the ship’s quarter: he
another, and with a little hiss aud sigh
of imprisoned water the whole mighty
tonnage of the gun, sweetly
on its trunnions, rises and tilts
to the push of the hydraulic press.
The range is decreasing by
ty yards a second, since the target
a ship approaching us at a speed
to our own—fifteen knots—and as
falling ranges are given the gun
wheel is turned an eighth or a
of an inch, aud tiro muzzl© of the
sinks down a I!;:!*' • . wt-v • full
ing leaf. The ■ . ■ ■ <m.
the gun laid, -j : *.-!!
been w- ig f • .• s .[,*>. ■ v>
“Firer •• : • -pen: .< v ... ;<-r
no bigger tli.-in tier. >f •«
The projectile was a dummy on u
made of wood covered with icalker.
aud there was no cordite in the cur
tvidges. 1/ it had been otherw the
pictures that adorned the commander’s
room, the mirrors and toilet aecesso
ries on the cabin tables and the va
rious elegant adornments of tin cap
tain's suit would tailless they had been
previously packed awayi have come
crashing down from their places, and
the navigating commander, who hap¬
pened at the time ro he explaining to
an unwilling listener on the quarter
deck by what skill and foresight he
had avoided setting the ship's stern on
to the break water at Portland, would
=> been blow.; off the deck.
'.\iese :v <gs were unnecessary, for
.nderstood. The click and si
»“* ' e that followed the word “Fire!”
ere quite eloquent enough to me of
all the shattering damnation they rep¬
resented—a projectile weighing 850
pounds hurtling to its mark at the
rate of almost a thousand yards a sec¬
ond.
But we in the turret would have
known nothing, for before it had reach¬
ed the target the breecb block would
have opened to the screech of the air
blast which cleans out the burning
fragments of cordite in the breech, the
rammer would have shot in with its
mop and out again, the ammunition
hoist would have come clattering and
j screaming up, another projectile would
| jave rolled into the tray with another
two hundredweight 0 f death packed
behind it, the rammer would have
i pu S i Je( j jt home with a kick, the block
j would have swung to again, the great
gun would have been sighted and
' swung In the air. again the word would
have been given, and again the frag¬
j ment of concentrated power that meD
had toiled in factories and drawing of
j flees, in laboratories and foundries to
perfect would have been sent winging
through the sea air to spend itself in
destruction.
1 And only iu the turret would
f one man
have seen its f ate: only he with his
eye to the telescope, who had seen the
; hull of that ship in the distance cover¬
1 ing
the threadlike cross on his glass
as . - filled the trigger, would see and
; emss when distant target would
J bunt ir.to yehew c moke what work
j had bee-. -Lmdin c ’**«odard.
j
i
| Lticill#—Oli. Not *1 Ail Eur \
you can wi > c : :■>
heart easily enough. All you neec do
j £’ vt * her all the money she wants
| Jules—And do you cal! that eusy?—
j ** ar * 8 Hire.
; -—
Life will give us back whatever we
| put into it In a way it is lust like a
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THE COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1912.
HID THE HANDKERCHIEF.
There Was a Time When It Was an
Unmentionable Article.
The evolution of the pocket handker¬
chief is odd and interesting. There
vas a time when it was an unmention
.-’ >e thing—an article to be kept out
of sight and referred to only in a whis¬
per. ’n polite conversation it was care¬
fully avoided, and. as to one’s being
caught using a handkerchief, it meant
eo-.ial ostracism.
This state of things obtained up to
vhe tr\,e of the first Napoleon, when the
I : ..press Josephine brought it forward
for a personal reason. The only defect
in her beauty was au irregularity of
the teeth, and to hide this she used a
delicate little handkerchief, which from
time to time she raised to her lips.
Thus she was enabled to laugh occa¬
sionally. Seeing that it wns a case of
either laughter going out or handker
chiefs coming into fashion, the court
ladies adopted the pretty pieces of cam¬
bric and lace.
In England the evolution of the arti¬
cle which is now so openly displayed
by women was equally slow. There
was a time when it wns forbidden to
mention it on the stage or to taake use
of it even in the most tearful situation,
while the people in the gallery and the
pit shed their tears into their laps
Even when it was mentioned for the
first time in one of Shakespeare's plays
it was received with hisses aud general
indignation by the audience. Little by
little, however, the prejudice gave way.
and a time came when the handker
chief could be flourished in broad day¬
light.
Stood the Test.
“So you want to marry my daugh¬
ter?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Got any money saved up?”
"Yes, sir.”
“Could you let me have $5,000 on my
unsecured note?”
“I could, but I wouldn't.”
“I guess you can take care of her all
right. She's yours, my boy, and here’s
a five cent cigar.” — Washington Her
aid.
Pat's Answer.
An Irishman once entered into con¬
versation with an Englishman. The
Englishman, thinking to have a joke
with his companion, asked, “How
many hairs on a pig's face?”
“Begorra, sir,” said Pat, “the next
time you shave you can count them.”—
London Answers.
Wanted to Know.
t*—.Freddie, haven’t I told you
that tf you r-’ocL at the peculiarities of
others you may grow just like them?
Freddie—Say. .ia. do you suppose if l
mocked at the elephant long enough
I’d ever get mi's 1 could pick up apples
over lb-* fence with my nose?—Boston
Real Estate
The time of year is here when you are thinking of buying
a home in town or a good farm. I have a good listing and
can sell you anything that you want. A number of good
farms listed that you can buy for a home or for an invest¬
ment. Farm land are a mighty got d investment for they
are getting higher every year.
If you have any real estate to sell I will glad to han¬
dle it for you.
C. A. HARWELL
Real Estate Covington, Ga.
Schedule of the Covington and
Oxford Street Railway Company
Lt Cot. 7:15 am. Lv Depot 7:45 am
Lt Cot. 8:30 am. Lv Depot 9:00 am
Lv Lt Cov.ll:50 Cot. 2:10 am. Lv Lv Depot 12:25 asm j
pm. Depot 2:20 pm
Lv Cov. 4:00 pm. Lv Depot 4:30 pm
Lt Cot. 6: pm. Lv Depot 6:45 pm
Lt Cot. 6:55 pm. Lv Depot 7:00 pm
Lt Cot. 7:30 ran. Lv Depot 8:10 pm
Cars will leave Covington on time
and will wait at Depot for delayed
trains.
Lv Oxf. 7:10 am. Lv Depot 7:50 am
Lv Oxf. 8:20 am. Lv Depot 9:05 am
Lv Oxf. 11:45 am. Lv Depot 12:25 am
Lt Oxf. 1:55 pm. Lt Depot 2:15 pm
Lv Oxf. 4:00 pm. Lv Depot 4:40 pm
l.v Oxf. 6:00 pm. Lv Depot 7:00 pm
Lt Oxf. 7:30 pm. Lt Depot 8:10 pm
Cars will leave Oxford on time and
will wait at Depot for delayed trains.
E. W. FOWLER, President.
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