FACTS ABOUT THE RNY
Items of Interest Carefully Culled
and Condensed.
MEN, WEAPONS AND MUNITIONS.
All About the Rank
That
amd Fille and the
Them
Men Are Examined Mor Enlistment The
Balloon In Was,
The regular
regiments
try
Gran cotton, a
tive
material nsed in
HES,
It is a
Regulations Govern How
sod Its Use
army is made up of 43
-10 of cavalry, 20 of infan-
afd 7 of artillery,
the safest and most
explosive for the purpose, is
planting submarine
severe examination, physical
moral, that the candidate for en
listmment in the regular army has to
pass. In times of peace about cue
didate in 25 is accepted.
It is a good card for a new recruit to
begin his term of service with little to
say. Ofllcers and privates dislike
diers who talk too much, particularly
talkative recruita
A noncommissioned officer is required
to perform no labor with his hands be-
yond keeping his kit clean.
The president is by virtue of his office
commander in chief of the army and
navy.
oan -
s80l-
Major general, next to commander in
chief (always the president), is the
highest rank in the army. The title
lieutenant general, which ended with
General Sheridan, will perhaps be re-
vived.
There are 10,000,000 men of fighting
age in the United States.
To enlist in the army the applicant
must be between 21 and 30 years old,
of good character and habits, ablebod-
ied ites fron not than 5
fe et 4 inches tall, and between 128 and
190 pounds in w
1 disease, less
Recruits
hes in he
measuring above
ine ight or weighing at
pounds
Eervioe,
Fat men do not make as of
diers as thin men.
Married men and foreigners are not
accepted ns recruits in times of peace.
The payof a private i813 a month.
While many first battles bave been
fought upon the sea, there are few great
conflicts in history that have not been
ended by land forces
On their caps infantrymen wear cross-
ed rifles, artillerymen crossed ocennon,
cavalrymen crossed sabers, engineers a
castle, signal corps men crossed flags.
The facings of the infantry uniforms
are white, of the artillery red, of the
cavalry yellow. of the signal corps or-
ange and of the medical department
green.
“Eyes of the areng'' is the tenn ap-
plied to the signal corps.
The signal corpe of the mgoier arary
conssts of ten officers, mcioding Chief
Greedy and 50 sergeants. Bach company
of regular soldiers uno? nye ab least
four men proficient fn dgneddng who
may be detelied tr tho apddk at any
time,
Teocops who ja refund pears baye
fought Indians in the far west are usu.
ally experienced in heliographio service.
This method of signaling, by flashing
of mirrors, was much used in the later
Apache campaign.
War balloons are now fitted with tele-
scopio cameras,
of a vast area of country can be obtain-
ed.
wires by which the men aloft may com-
municate with the commander on land.
The best of
Sam's soldiers, and
floient sol-
a day.
The regular infantry arm is the Krag-
it is used the sword bayonet.
Smokeless powder and 30 caliber bul-
lets aro used in the army magazine rifle.
MINES AND TORPEDOES,
Submarine Agents. For Attack at Fos and
Defense In Harbors.
warfare began during the
American civil war. The early torpe-
does were crude affairs and were used
in comparatively few places, so that not
many opportunities were afforded to test
the possibilities of the new destructive
agent in naval and harbor warfare
Thirty-seven torpedo attacks have
been made thus far in modern naval
warfare. Their total results were 13
ships sunk and one ship dameged. Bix
assailant boats wore lost
The Whitehead torpedo ie the only
antomobile torpedo which bas ever beey
used in war and is praaotically the only
torpedo in use today. The United States
was the fag t leading nation to adopt the
Whitehead, the navy department delay-
ing action “with the hope that an Ames
ican engineer would produce the White
head's equal.
That the torpedo stands today as the
most wonderful and terrible of modern
engines of war is not to be doubted, bat
it bas had po real test of its powen Neo
val officers all over Europe have looked
forward eagerly to a war between the
United Btates and Spain as an object
lesson in torpedo warfare.
The three cylinders that compose the
propelling engine within a Whitehead
torpedo could be carried in one's owee-
cout pocket, but they have a combined
force of 80 horsepower
South American wars sinoe 15877 apd
the recent war between China and Ja-
pan have shown what could be done with
torpedoes. Russia also suooessfully em-
ployed Torpedoes io her war with Tur-
key in 1877.
A check to the torpedo boat is the toe:
pedo boat destroyer. Of these vessels
Spain has Buglaud bas more than
100, while all the other first class Eu-
ropean powers have from 10 to 75 de-
Theso craft are armed
and machine
equipped to
Torpedo
10,
each.
with rapid fire
also are
agninst ai mys ship
The + t Or: of
Birovers
guns, and
gol rpoed wR
an anchored
cass contalin-
Ifas
jocting firing pins,
ied, which ex
odes
Stationary torpedoes or buoyant |
mines are anchored near the bottom in |
deep water by a de which
them to be electrically released
proper time to rise to the
neath the hostile ship.
In the observation
vice
surface be-
two wires
mine
gel above the mine
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the and M0 people
plied for passage on the French steam-
left there
leave
island, over ap
when she ree
on shore, which informs the
there that it is time to touch the batton
causing the mine to explode
LEGALIZED WARFARE.
Agreements by Whieh Givitiand Nestioum
Diminksh Wae's Horrors,
What is called international law in
respect of warfare is a compact snong
nations as to certain rafes aad forbear:
ances that shall be obeyed in condogt-
ing hostilities shoald war aries between
any of thd parties to the agreasment,
It is agreed among the great
of Europe that in the event of war pris’
e ing, arraying ay ope of these. pow -
‘against another, therty shall Be no
private ring on either sida. This mite |
the capturing or destruction of the ene.
Good News,
No othér medicine was
such a test as Otto's Cure.
ever given
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At the beginning of the present war
with Spain President McKinley pro-
claimed’ that the neutral flag covers ene-
my’'s goods with the exception of ocon-
traband of war aod that neutral goods
not contraband of war are not liable to
confiscation under the enemy's flag
There are differences of opinion as to
whether certain articles are contraband
of war—that is, whether they can be
useful to the enemny. Thus while sul-
from which powder might be
made, is contraband, it is still an onde
cided question whether the same rule
applies to coal that might be used in
In all modern wars, even when such
& machete.
engaged, the Red Cross flag has been re-
the draft and pack animal of the army.
No pillaging is now allowed in war,
iu the west. The government buys for its use in passing through a country
them unbroken, and each horse is train- ~—food for men and horses, wagons and
ed by the cavalryman to whom it je abimals for transportation, arms, muoni-
assigned. tions and supplies of all kinda
Tho weapous of # regular cavalrymas| In the present war Spain claims a
are a carbine, revolver and saber. ‘right to grant letters of marque to priva-
There are four regiments of colored teers, but has intimated thas she will
troops ia the regular army, two of cay. #imply place under naval control the
tiry and two of infantry. . They are com- nevchant ships that are to serve as sux-
tianded by white officers. fliories in this conflict.
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Large bottles 50c. and 25¢.
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