THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURft, PA. IS 1 Hudson Maxim Describes his latest Invention BEWILDERING SPEED Torpedoes of Such l-.r plosive Power ni to Insure liis(;..;i i.estruction of Any Wnr Vessel S; ruck liont Oin Vn!;e Sixty Miles un Hour Submerged. n evident navy Is to-day a wall r rational security. Just a In old :iies was the great city wall. If i nr naval wall were to be breached V an enemy then our coast cities ".vo u id be at Its mercy, and could be aliased under cover of the Runs of Its fleet and In spite of our Insuffic ient coast defenses, says Hudson Maxim In the New York World. While we miff tit doubtless be able to repel an Invasion ol the interior. ntlll we cannot afford to take any chances of sue i a national disaster, even as a remote possibility, the cost of which would be more than tho build ing of a dozen tWts as large as that new In Pacific liters. 1 have Invented a torpedo which wili have doi'ble the range and speed of any corpedo now In use, and have invented a torpedo boat HUDSON MAXIM, which will have a speed greater than that of any battleship or cruiser, and which will be able to defy the hot and abell of quick-firing guns in making a run of attack. Torpedoes will be carried In the orpedo boat with half a ton of high plosive ln the warhead, so that to struck by one of them, will In i"''re the instant destruction of any " ar vessel and there Is no war ves- i in existence that could avoid be lli g struck by one of these torpe does. A torpedo boat built according to my invention will oe about sixty-four fvt long, and 111 be driven by gas oline engines upon the surface of the water, under normal conditions; but when going into action the boat will be submerged until only the top of the conning tower and the top of the dorsal fin will be teen above the sur face of the water. In the prow of the boat will be carried two large toricdoes. each containing half a ton of high explo sive. Motorlte la the fuel, consisting of 70 per cent nitroglycerine and 30 per cent, guncotton. For use It is made in long solid bars, forced and sealed Into long steel tubes. This fuel Is self-corabustive, and does not require atmospheric air to burn it; consequently, it may be burned in a confined space. The heat of the burning motorlte Is used to evap orate water, and the steam and prod ucts of combustion are mingled to drive turbines for the boat's propul sion. It will, of course, rpqulm an enor mous amount of power to , ropel this torpedo-boat at an express train speed when submerged, b it with mo. .orlte we have ail the power that may be needed even to attain a speed as great as sixty miles an hour. As only the top of the conning tower will appear above the surface of the water, this will be a very diffi cult object to hit, even with the quldi-flrlng guns of the battleship, and the exposed part of the conning tower will be protected by armor , piste of a thickness great enough to resist the projectiles of quick-firing ! una, and any projectile striking the superstructure can do no real dam age to the boat itself. Wheu the torpedo boat is launch ed, the reaction or recoil will serre to retard the torpedo-boat and to aid in stopping It. After launching the torpedo the engines will reverse and tie boat will withdraw stern-foremost At this Juncture there will be no fear of the enemya guns, for tie survivors will be busy with their prayers. Let r.i repeat, It will be absolutely Impossible to prevent this torpedo boat from reaching and torpedoing ary battleship in the world, and with but small danger on Its part of be ing destroyed At luit a hundred of these torpe- boat could m built at the ooat of a single battle ship, and a hun dred of them would be more than a match for an equal number of battle ships. The goats which produce milk for the famous Roquefort cheese, hardly ever drink water, obtaining the moisture they require from the herbage. ? -5 ? i Hi i n-rr-nr n i I I TflK WIIOLK WORM) MX. An Incident Which Scrim to Prove tlio Truth of Thin Snylng. That New Vorkerr are not In too much cf a hurry all the Mine to be thoughtful and kindly wu Illus trated tho other day In Nassau street, when the wlrd was playing such havoj with umbrella., that a man with a taste for statistics count ed Just ten blown Into wrecks In the space of twenty-five minutes. Just as this diverting spectacle was at its height in front of the quick lunch restaurant, a poor woman with a basketful -f newspapers hung over on crooked arm and a baby snugged up close to her body ln the other, came down the street trying to make way nsalnst the wind and still shelter tho baby under a shabby excuse for an umbrella. Just as she was in front of the rostau.rnt a particularly fierce blast of wind blew the umbrella backwa.-d, carrying the baby's cap with It. Instantly i.e man bolted from the door of the restaurant to her aid, two men on the sidewalk grabbed for th tin) cep and a fourth started on a Jump across tho street to the woman aid. Two of the men p.it the enp on tue baby's head and another held the umbrella over the mother's heal while they were d( :ng It. The tourt; man looked as If he had been Injured deeply by not hiving a hand ln the jr.io: work. He salved hli hurt feelings by put ting a coin in ..he baby's fingers. Then every one In sight looked pleased ami the tralHc we::t ct. its T .r d- blown wa The Auto Piskcr. "No I don't own Mi -utomo-H. and I never expect to," the ninu admitted; "bu' then. Is that any reason why I should r't own a pair of auto gogeU-c and an automobile duster If you traveled around the ro.intry as much as I do you'd know that there are hundreds of people who rear auto fixings despite the fact that they probably never rode ln an auto. I got to using these gog feles last summer on th observation coaches, because 1 found they were good to keep cinders out of my .eyes. Then 1 found thU the auto rigging gave me prestige with jther pas sengers. I got o talking with one nan who wore the goggles trying to make a bluff at being an autolst to keej. him from finding out. and I learned that he was a ringer, the same as I was. There is no deny ing the fact though, that a man with auto clothes on can get Letter service than the nol pollol. Waiters and everybody thinks he's a millionaire and act accordingly. Rarest of Trudrs. "Mine is the rarest of all trades," fcald an Engllsman sipping his light ale. wblch he called small beer. "I am a maker of instruments of tor ture. I suppose that at this moment In Slam and China, yellow men are bleeding and fowling in the clutch of machines of my make." He lighted his pipe. "Pleasant tUoughl, eh? But we must make our living somehow. In Birming ham mine's niadn. There, for sev enteen years 1 have been turning our racks, hair and nail drawets. thuiiibscrews, skinners, needle beds, bearing Irons, bone breakers, and what not. Slam and China have bought their instruments of torture from Birmingham for generat'ons. Some of these contrivances are very costly and Ingenious. There is a water drop per which works by clockwork that costs $500. There's a but that's too horrible to talk about. The Chinese Instruments by tho way, are a million times crueler than the Si amese." Demand for Old Hats. 'Oh, yes, I am always ln the mar ket for second-hand derbys and silk hats, fhey sell better than any thing else." The old clothes dealer pointed to a room filled with shock ing hats. "There's not half enough to meet my demands," he said. "If you was to bring me a carload of old hats this morning I'd take 'em all." "Thjre's such a demand, eh?" "You bet there's a demand. Es peclaHy among old maids and wid ows that live alone. They buy these jats and hang a couple on the hall rack. Then, when a beggar or tramp gets too rambuncious at the door they turn and say: "George is home. There's his hat. George! Oh, George! Will you come down here and turn this rascal away?" "Then the tramp sneaks, think ing there's a man In the house. "Restaurants when they open up new stands, generally lay In twenty five or thirty hatt They hang them in the lobby to make people think business la brisk." Treatment of Deaf Mutes. In the experience of Dr. Marage, as reported to the Paris Academy of Medicine, very few deaf mutes have proven absolutely Incurable, but of the others there are two classes those who eventually un. derstand and speak almost as well as anybody, and those who get no further than hearing and under standing music. Jt recent class of pupils from 11 to 14 years of age had been given a six weeks' course of accoustlo exercise with the voice a'ren. By this system the teacher avoids fatigue and the children had not only acquired the ability to hear and understand French, but their voice had lost the harshness) char uc tarts tic of deaf mutes. OXCK TKON. NOW. MILLIONAIRE. Mine (Uncovered by Mexican Netted Him f ir,o,0()0,000 in Six Years. The famous Palmlllo mine near Parral, State of Chihuahua, Mexico, which produced for Its owner Pedro Alvarado, $150,000,000 in six years, has passed Into the hands of Ameri cans. , Up to the time the American min ing engineers were admitted to the Palmlllo mine It was a complete mys tery to mining men. Alvarado would never permit any one except his Mexican laborers to go into it un til he renched a decision to leaso it. It is the opinion of mining ex perts here that Alvarado will obtain greater profits from the wonderful mine by leasing it than he did while operating It himself. It Is said he laid no attention to the science of mining In taking out the ore, and that vast bodies of ore of great rich ness are still untouched. Under his methods it cost $18 per ton to mine, transport and treat the ores. It is shown by recent tests that this cost can be cut down almost one-half, and thnt tho ore is Ideal for cyanide treatment. The lessees are installing the most modern machinery, and the mine is to be equipped so as to increase Its production to the fullest limit. Und;r the terms of the lease Alva-, rado Is to received 4 5 per cent of the net profits of tho mine. Ho also re ceived n cash payment of $100,000 when the lease went Into effect. Alvarado. who only a few years ago. was a peon w king ln the mines for thirty-five cen3 a day, Is prepar ing to enjoy Ills millions of dollars of wealth which the Paluilllo brought t.im. Hm has planned to do a great deal of charitable work, such as pro viding homes for the poor, building and endowing schools, and erecting church edifice:?. He has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to the poor people of Parral during the last few years. He erected u Cath olic church here at a cost of $200, 000. He will soon visit the City of Mexico, for the purpose of investi gating the condition of the poorer classes there. He contemplates establishing a great industrial school in that city, whore the children of the poor will be taught trades of various kinds and trained in industries and given knowledge of a practical kind. The marble inlace which Alvarado erected here a few years ago is said to have cost $2,000,000. It is lo cated on the bank of the Parral riv er, and "beyond th wealth of carv ing which the exterior stones bear does not have a gaudy appearance from the outside. The wide sUlrway which lead- to the upper floor is of onyx; gold and silver ornaments are to be seen on every hand. A large room of the palace Is fitted up as a chapel and the altar Is of solid gold. In every room It a piano, and in cages ranged along the balls are hundreds of canary xlrds. The story is told that Alvarado keeps many millions of dollars of his wealth in cash stored In a big steel vault or cage ln the basement of his residence. It is known be never comes into Parral without bringing a large sum of money which he dis tributes among the needy poor peo ple. He is only thirty-eight years old. It Is his ambition to visit the United States and Europe, and now that he has the active management of the famous Palmlllo mines off his hands, it s probable that he will soon car ry out his desire for extensive travel. Hank Like a Watch. - A pocket savings bank ln the shape of a watch and of no greater dimen sions, Is being Introduced by sav ings fund organizations as a means of opening new accounts and In creasing old ones. It Is made substantially of two pieces of steel nickel-plated. Tho banks are distributed to patrons POCKET SAVINS BANK. . and after being filled are returned to be opened and the contents placed to the credit of the depositor. They hold five dollars ln dimes. In assembling the parts after emptying, the bank la caught at the bottom and secured at the top by the setting of an eyelet Gout the Foe of Oonsumpttoa. Sir Dyce Duckworth, in his ad dress to the faculty of medicine, said that many persons were con stltutionally predisposed to rheuma tium and gout, but an Important characteristic In such cases was the antagonism of the tissues to the ba cilli of tuberculosis. The mors rheumatic or gouty a person was the less pronounced was his tendency to consumption. London Post Great Fertility. It is estimated that tho fertile lands of the globs amount to ll 000,000 square miles, the steppes to 14.000,000 and ttk Assorts a lr 000,000. HIS OWN PRIVATE THEATRE. Man With Money Who Wants to Seo Shows Rullt One for the Purpose. The.e Is a town in Pennsylvania, not far from Ha'rlsburg, but off tne beaten track, which boasts of a theatr-, wtilrh for luxury of accom modation would be hard to equal. The theatre has all ports of mcdern conveniences, of a kind which could hardly be expected It a city under a million of inhabitants. This par ticular city had at the last census about 10.000 Inhabitants. The reason for being of this thra. tre, which gets all the road attrac tions of high class, is that there Is In the town on exceeding! wealthy r.iin who wan.i, to see showi with out leaving home. He is worth about $10,000,000. Hu has lived in and about the Placo all his lire making money out or lumber and manufactures. When he had enough to retire on he cldn't want to go anywhere else to Bee shews, and as the theatre the place, boaster! of was a very diugy one he bad one built. He runs the theatre himself at a considerable loss every year, but he gets what h wants. Tho theatre people like the place, too, beca ise It Is so very different from the aver, ago show house ln the small ;wn. The Desert of Sahara. Th Desert of Sahara may be 'e snrted; perhaps It is most desert lilte, great tracts of sand, and not a soul to be seen, but thnt Is not the onceptlou that mo.st of un have. Personally the writer is convinced that It Is crowded with people all of them recognizing one another. It must be so, from the number 'of 1 ersons we hear exclaiming: "I 8lv u!d have known you, my denr. If I'd met you ln the Desert oi Sahara." They do not say that they ever have met anyone in the desert, but one ge's the impression thnt the air here 13 particularly favorable for recogni tion a suit of "If you see it li. the desert it's so." The place appar ently, gives a stamp of reality, proves it ln fact, and that Is why so many women say: "I wouldn't have be lieved it, not if I'd seen It ln the Dorert of Sahara.." We know that If they would doubt It there, con viiiing them any where else would rut of the question. Thb may b quite an erroneous idea and only ihe result of not tra"e!llng. Some day that desert will have to bt found out about and thesj minor points f1e--d up Fastidious Smokers. Did you know." asked one member of a group who were talki: g of. the recent Indian uprising in the South west, "that an Indian is much more fastidious than a white man In the matter of smoking? I saw, when I was in Montana, several of their war dances and the councils afterwards. You know they sit ln a circle on the ground and pass the pipe of good fellowship around In silence. Each man takes two or three puffs then .ands the pipe to his next neighbor. But, If you notice, you will seo that ln the whole circuit which It makes th mouthpiece is never wet. The red man merely lays the stem against his lower Up, and, keeping his mouth partly open, draws a deep breath. Removing the pipe, he exhales the smoke, und then perhaps repeat; the process, but he never puts the mouth, piece into his mouth ln tho common 'paleface' fashion. If he Is asked to smoke a peace-pipe after a white man, hj first wipes eft the end c the 1 western, where it has beea ln the previous smoker's mouth." Guarding Dank of France. Like the Bank of England, the Bank of Fnanoe Is now guarded every night by sold It's. But with in quite recent time the officials at the bank resorted to a quite novel method of protecting their bullion. This consisted in engaging masons to wall up the doors of the vaults in the cellar with hydraulic mortar as soon as the money was deposited each day in these receptacles. The water was then turned on and kept running until the whole cellar was flooded. A burglar would be c bilged tc work ln a diving suit and break down a cement wall before he could even begin to plunder the vaults. When the bank offlc'als at rived next morning the water was drawn off, the masonry torn down, and the vaults opened. Tho Energetic Collector. New York thrives with collectors of "worthless accounts," and they are worse than a pack of hounds after a sick fox in a stubble field. Tbelr ways are peculiar. One very successful fellow writes a polite note to the debtor. Receiving no response he writes a tecond time, In style somewhat formal. Noth ing doing, as the phrase goes, he makes a personal call ind Is In all probability kicked down stairs or threatened with personal violence. Corporal punishment only eggs him on to renewed exertions. His next letter is addressed ln scarlet Ink, the handwriting belug so big as to attract attention across the street. The language Is quite s fierce as tne chirograpby. It "throws a scare," and a settlement usually fol. lows. Statistics show that the longest lived people eat the heartiest break, fasts. A Danville (111.) hen recently laid her thousandth egg. This Is be lieved to be the record. III IIJ FTTTa 1 1 iTllLMI 11 i - - - aaiaMsja Vegetable PreparAlionTor As similating rhcFoodnndRcguIa ting the Stomachs and Bowels of Promotes Digcdlion.ChecrPur ness and Rest.Contalns neither Opium.Morphine nor Mineral. Rot Narcotic. Jlx Smrt Aperfecl Remedy forConslipa-' Tlon, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Fcvchslv ncs9 and Loss of Sleep. Facsimile Signature cf NEW YORK. I EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. SUIT FOR Bl'SIVKSS. liroadvt loner's Gowns Are Smart mid Simply Fashioned. Although her clothes are much more simply fashioned, the busi.nst woman revels ln modes quite a smart as those of the woman of l"la ure. Nothing could be jauntier tan this semi-tailored suit, with Its skirl of checked tweod abd Jacket of luct cloth. The skirt Is plaited all around tM figure and trimmed with folds o( It ovn material, stitched along the tip per edge only, and ending on eKui t side or a narrow front panel, ll clears the ground by about two in ches and is circular ln effect. Cti uj the hips snugly. The little hip-Jacket of cloth hai a suggestion of au Umpire vest fiihli. toned of its own material and thu, like the collar, is outw'th vtiocoj Bilk. A trim tailored shirt waist witii an Antoinette i utile down the froui adds to the neutnetis of the costume, and this is finished with a high lincu turn-over collar, closed with a llitio black Bilk bow tie. The hat is a dull blue crinoline, ba.ing a fold f velvet around thi ci"wu, the velvet under at the tUu under a huge American beauty. rou, with green foliage. Explanations. Nothing 1b more fatal to friendly relations than complaints and re proaches and demands for explana tions. People must be Judged in the wholeness of their conduct. A thous and subtle Influences, unexpected and unforBoen events, have their ac tion and reaction on life. A thous and things occur that can neither be analyzed nor defined. Many a tem porary alienation Is effectively over come by silence. . Reproaches, ques tionings, but wldun the pulf. l.eav. lug It alone, taking up other Inter ests and Ideas, bridges 1'. over. Lil lian Whiting. To Preserve IiCieo:iy.. Put a layer of dry lliif i:in 1. r-i Inch ln depth at the bott'.m of mi earthenware Jar. Place a nw of Iim oils on this, stalk downward, mi l 1. 4 careful that they do not touch 1 in anrther. Cover them with another layer of sand fully three Inches iu depth. Lay on It more lemons and repeat until the jar Is full. Store la a cool, dry place. Lemons thus pre served will kee for months. .J W H II For Infants and Children. jThe Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years TMt etimim mm, ntm van cm Sealskin n the Making. How many of tho fair wearers of sealskin know how this fur Is pre pared? , In the skin oj" a dog or a cat It will be noticed that at tho roots of tie longer, coarser hair of tho ani mal, there are fine short hnlrs called "under fur." In mont animals these hairs are bo few that thr-y are us ually cverlookcd. Not so with seal skin. The operations which the pelt un dergoes to bring out this tinder fur are really simple. The skin, after going through va rious processes to cleanse it of gcease, etc., Is stretched out flat, with the flesh side uppermost. A flat knife Is then passed over It. thin ning the skin considerably. In do ing this It loosens the roots of the longer hairs which are more deeply embedded than thoso of the under fur. The rough halm are thus got rid of without injury to the softer fur. Next the pelt passes through oper ations which soften and preserve It. Then comes tho dyeing by which the uniform tint so generally admired Is obtatned. And now the fur is ready for making up into cosy wrai -Montreal Standard. What a splendid ty of tireless ac tivity Is the sun as the psalmist de scribes it Issuing like 'a bridegroom from his clminber ami rejoicing likes strong man to run a race " Kvery man ought to rise In tho morning refreshed by slumber and renewed by rent, eager for the struggle of the day, Jtut how rarely this is so. Most people riae tstltl u 11 refreshed, ami dreading the strain of the day's labors. The cuiise of this is deficient vitality and behind this lies a deficient supply ol pure, rich blood, and an inadequate nourishment of the body. There is nothing that will i?'ve a man strength und energy, as will Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It does this by increasing the quantity and quality of the blood supply. This nourishes the nerves, feeds tne bruin, builds up enfeebled organs, and giv that sense of strength and power which makes the struggle of life a joy. The "jftKxl feeling" which follows the 11 of "Golden Medical Discovery , is not due to stimulation as it contains 110 al cohol. The ingredients are plainly Mated 011 the bottle-wrapper. It dos not "brace.up" the body, but builds It up into a condition of sound and vigor ous health. -- Love may laugh at locksmiths, but even love may forget t hat he luughi best who laughs last. . Quick climate changks try strong constitutions and causa, among other evils nasal catarrh, a troublesome ud offensive diseuse. Sueeiii"; and snuf iltng, coughing and ditncult breathings and the drip, drip of I lie foul discharge into the throat till ure ended by Wy' Cream Halm. This honest remedy con tains 110 coculnu, mercury, nor other harmful Ingredient. The worst Ciises yield to treatment in a short time. All druggists. 60c. or mulled by Ely Bros., 60 arren .Street, New York. Hoax "Ile'T always looking f'r trouble." Joax "Well, I guess lie oun find it without any trouble." 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