ilPltf'i'W'Wflf TTJr4- V THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1898. THE PERILS WHICH BESET WARSHIPS Wei'ern Men-o'-War Aro Regarded as Veritable Death Traps. APROPOS OF TIIE MAINE'S MISHAP Serious Accidents, If Not Mholosnle 1) mstors, Within the llccont His tory ot Our Nnry AVIilch IIllVO Ilocu Averted Only by IleniUnai of Wit mid llockloss IJrnvcrv on the I'nrt ol tlio Hnllors nnd Offloerii.-Spon-tnncou Combustion. The following Is a naval oltlccr's con tribution to the Washington Post ap ropos of the disaster to tho Maine- "Th'o man-of-war's man or olllcer who neglects to keep a careful, think ing head on his shoulders during nil his waking hours aboard ship is liable to get hurt. Danger lurks cwrvwhero on a modern chip of war. .The most careful naval sallorman cften finds himself on the very In Ink of a disas ter, tnat, without quick thinking- and irgptnlng action on somebody's part, would land him and many of his ship mates, If not his whole shin's com pany, In klnEilom come. There are severa warrant ofllccrs In the United States navy today who owe their uni forms to rapid Judgment nnd bravery In the face of Impending magazine, ac cidents. "It was only the other day that a gunner's mate, solving on one of the ships of the North Atlantic squadron, exhibited u bit of swift head and hand Wf'ik that will no doubt lioost him far tin the line for n warrant, cilk-et's blouse. The ship vas engaging In big gun practice nt sea. Solid shot was being llicd from the mPln battery of C inch guns. The skipper was In the con ning tower, directing the filing. The gunner's mate was stationed In the (onnlng tower with the skipper, nnd serving as messi nger for the carrying of verbal mtssages for the command ing ollcer to the officers In charge of gunB One of the big guns on the to' gallr . fo'c'sle was loaded, and on the very needle point of being electilcally " A by the skipper from the conning a or, when ttie gunners mates snarp a took In at n sudden glanie that l or, when the gunners mate's sharp vo took In at n. sudden glanie that Ihe breech of the huau gun "as nut locked. QUICK Jt'DGMKNT. "He didn't let out any dKeonceitlng jell that might hae caused the man at the electric button to give It an ac cidental push. He did not say a woid, and he said afterwards that he would npt have been able to emit a bound to bave his soul when he made the start- discovery. He simply made two .Ainds for the exposed, Insulated wire in the conning tower connecting with the, big gun's electric fuse, ripped it In several pieces with all the stiength of both his hands, and then collapsed In the conning tower, weak as a kitten, tho commanding officer, with his finger stil on the electric button, gazing at 111 in wondeilngly. "'What alls you, man'.'' inquired the skipper. 'Are you amuck, or what the dell Is If' "The gunner's mate gasped for u, minute nnd then telated to the com manding officer how near he had come to razing the to'gallant fo'c'sle even with the spar deck, and to killing a couple of dozen of officers and men, Mneludln' me and you,' said the gun ne's mate. As a mater of fact, theie would not hae been much left of the cmlper forwaid of the mainmast had the big gun been fired with an unlocked breech. This gunnel's mate will not heveafter find much difficulty In get tlnir shore liberty, fourth class or no fourth class, when he wants to 'hit thp beach,' and the filigree tinsel that he will probably wear on his unlfoim I not very long hence will not be con- fined to the exploding hhell latlng badge on his watch arm. BRAVERY OK 'PltKNTICn ROY. "One of tho first of the steel ships of the new navy had not been in com mission three months before a level hfa'ded apprentice boy executed a rap id descent into the pit of the ship's endangered magazine that put him at the t,op of the line for the gunner's war lant he now holds. The gun dhlslons of the crew were overhauling the after magazine breaking out fixed ammuni tion and cans of powder and gun cot ton and cleaning and red-leading the bilges. Tho ship had not yet been equipped with electricity, nnd bo closed lanterns were employed to illuminate the Cimmerian darkness of the maga zine. The lanterns, as was customary on men-of-war before the days of mov able Incandescent electric lamps on naval vessels, had been carefully in spected by an officer before the hatch Ot he magazine was lifted. All of them were found in apparently tight ordpr, and tho work of hoisting tho mftgazlne contents to tho main deck vy means of block and tackle was be gun, The chief gunner's mate, under thp direction of a division olllcer, was superintending the increments of the nien, Ho was leaning over the hatch, calling out orders to the hands in the pit pf the magazine, when he knocked the lantern he carried in hla hand against one of the steel sides of the hatch. The spring that held tho lamp fejl through the hatch. Still lighted, ft fell bottom side up on top of a big cap nf powder that was hooked nnd ivady to be hoisted to the deck. The ny nien in the pit of the magazine had gon away aft In tho magazine to haul more cans of powder to the hooks, and, their backs being turned to the hatch openlntr, they did not see the lantern lamp resting on the can of powder, with; tho flame of the wick right next to (he metal of the can. The men at the; top of the hatch were In a stupor of hprror, but the alert apprentice boy. who afterward got his sword for tho Jop, wa wide awake, He shinned down the tackle an Instant after the lamp f?ll. grabbed the lamp, the llame of which had already begun to heat the can metal, and yelled up the hatch: " 'Pull me and the can up to the ma'n deck, you fellows.' "Having extinguished the lamp with h's, fingers, he grabbed the rope with his fight hand nnd the can of powder with his left, and the men at the hatch opening had him on the main deck In a, Jiffy. The apprentice boy scooted up the poop ladder and chucked the heavy ran of powder over the side. The com manding officer of the ship did not complain of the loss of the powder. FIREMAN'S PRESENCE OP MIND. "A second-class fireman serving on ope of the smaller cruisers had his head about him when the magazine of ixtj ship was threatened a few years Atrn hrm he has bad the mtmh lmtter mil rig of a water-tender .ever since. 6V of his ihlpmates of the black gang .was cleaning nis section or the after knginu room vut,e onu murmng. Jim miouiar Buuuuii ot wie uuges was on the starboard side of tho extreme after part If tho engine-room. Immediately aft the englne-ioom was the ship's magazine, bcparatcd from the engine room by a steel partition. Ullges ar cleaned with turpentine-soaked waste. Tho bilge-cleaner, too lazy to fill one of the small turpentine cans provided for flits purpose, dragged a five-gallon can of turpentine to his bilge station nnd began work, Smoking Is strictly pro hibited In the engine-rooms of a man-of-war, on account of tho large amount of combustible stores necessarily stowed below. This bilge-cleaner was a reckless sort of blade, however, and when he had got his bilge-cleaning underway he took out Ms pipe and lit It, carelessly chucking tho match In the bilge. There was some turpentine In the bilge, and the inntcli, still aglow, set It Into o flame. Tho bilge-cleaner Jumped to his feet, and In doing so he overturned the five gallons of turpen tine. Then the bilge was converted In to a roaring mass of flame that shot to the bcith deck gratings and played directly against the steel bulkhead separating the engine-room from the magalne. The careless bilge-cleaner was scotched, and he bolted for the spar deck, jelling like a madman. The second-class fireman with the head on him was the only other man In the after engine-room at the time this hap pened. Ho made a Jump for the bilge covers that had been lemoved by his reckless mate, nnd, nlthough severely burned while doing It, he thuist them over the bilges. Then he seized a wiench nnd knocked open one of tho Intakes from the sea that let water directly Into the bilge that was In flames. The water came In so rapidly that It knocked the bilge-covers off, but It drowned the fire. There was more than a foot of water In the engine rooms before the Intake could be closed again, but tbnt was a small matter computed with what might have hap pened had the hot tuipentlne llame lapped the magazine bulkhead much longer Uy the time file quartets was sounded and the men on deck got down below, the second-class fireman, with his hair and eyebrows all burned olf, and the skin peeling from his face and hands, was thiowlng bucketful nfter bucketful of the Incoming sea water against the steel bulkhead, which was nlieady so hot that It sent back clouds of steam. SPOXTANHOr.S COMIH'STION. "Spontaneous combustion In the cral bunkeis of men-of-war Is homethlng mat ins always to tte jruuuled against. Thou- is u good deal of coal dug out or me siounu in minv pails ir tne world that Is practically peifect for s-toam-maklng put poses, but Is not used by men-of-war on account of lis known liability to Ignite of itself in hot coal bunkeis abutting upon fire and boiler 100111. In nil man-of-war bunkers there Is an apparatus that glei the alarm when the temperatuie of the bunker lisrs nboo a ceitain tct figure. The bunkeis am nil numbeied. If the temperatuie of bunker No. 1, for instance, ihis beond the bet lisaik, the alarm Is glvrn by means of a ring ing reglbteiiug machine, placed Just culslde the skipper's cabin. The mai Ine oiderly for the commanding olbcer, whosf itntluri outside the cabin door eiinbles him to kep his eje on and his ear attuned to the music of this bunker Hie nlatui, is nlwavs the man to make the i ush to the officer of the deck wjt't the news that there is some thing wrong In on ot the bunkeis. Then the shlp'b bugler bounds (lie quar teis, nnd all hands gallop to th"lr file stations. Steam is tinned Into the bunker, the coal in which is igniUd, and the lire hus nut out Such files aie not at all uncommon, but accounts of them laielj- get Into print ' No coal passer or any other mem ber of the engineers) gan-r Is p-umltted to cany an open light Into the bunkeis, but the coal passers often do this all the same. Coal bun'cis on modem ships of war are all fitted with a couple , of standing eleetr r litrhts each, l.nt In coaling ihlp the glabs casings aiound these lights are geneially smashed for the mobt part, leaving the bunkeis unllghted. The coal passers can't we to net out roal In hunkois as ilmk us midnight, and so they cauj their open llphts into the bunkeis, ordeis or no outers. "On one of the big cruheis of the Pacific station a fe, ycai? ago the bunker file alaim outside the skiPK-i's door bet up a steady rlnlnif. and the marine orderly rushed forwaid with the J.nnouncement that there was fire in coal bunker No. S. The ship wn.s nt sea at the time, but this coal bunk er was as yet uniroached, or at least the chief engineer had not been notified, as Is ipqulied, that the coal passers had started to h ml coal out of that bunker. Cleailj, then, in the minds of the Chief Engineer and the officer of the deck, there was .spontaneous com bustion In No. 8 bunker, nnd a minute after the nlatni was given the fire men were at the bunker door with the steam hose. They found the bunker door open, whkh the chief engineer couldn't understand, but they let enough Fteam into '.lie bunker to push the ciulsi five knots botore a stead j' bawling of sea expletives fiom within the bunker caused them to shut the steam h'oso aff. Then the voles within was henid, giowllnc: 'What the bloomln' devil aie jouse flat-foot paltit-sttubb-rs n-trjlng to do, drowred me an' "hokc me to death,-j'e blasted " And the rest of it was slmplj a touent of Jolly Hoger talk. MAIMED MAN-O'-WAIISMEN. "The olco within the bunker be longed to n coal-passer who, without the knowledge of tho chief engineer, had bioached No. 8 bunker because it was close to the flreiooms, and there fore easy to woik. The coal-passer had taken an open light into the bunker, and ho had set this light down on a flat lump of coal dliectly beneuth the fire alarm appuiatus. It didn't take the llre-nlarm nppaiatus two minutes to become heated sufficiently to make its automatic leport on deck. The coal- passer was glicui a chance to think the thing ovei while doing a ten-day trick in the brig In double Irons. "A week laiely passes by that some man or other on a man-of-war doesn't get more or less grlevouslj' hurt. If there Is not an unguarded open hatch for him to step Into, tho man-o'-wnrs-man has n chanco to mash a couple of toes or fingers In the mechanical man euver drill of overhauling batteries. On the cruisers that still carry sail for steadying purposes ho may be slapped on tho side of the head by a loose, snapping halyard, or he may! and often does take a bad tumble to the deck from a suddenly slackening ridge rope. Down below, among the black gang, a fireman is always thoughtlessly pick ing up an almost ied-hot slice bar or devil's claws at the wrong end, or get ting a stream of steam in his eyes from careless handling of valves. On tho whole, notwithstanding the Arm con viction of most sallormen that there Is less danger on the sea than on the land, the man-o'-warsman on a modern cruising ship Is kept prettV constantly guessing If he wants to get back to his wife or sweetheart as sound, whole, and healthy as when he last saw her." RUNNING AN EMPIRE IS NO SOFT SNAP If You Think It Is, Ask the Emperor ol China. DOWAQGR EMPRESS IS THO DOSS Kunng Hsu Shut Vp In Ills Purple 1'orblddeii City with Ills lloiv and Arrows--Tlio tirnnd Council, tho Ministry of War, tlio Tsnng.ll.Yn mon nnil tho Men U'ho Constitute Thom--I)nlly1)lot ol tlio Urothcr of tho Sim. Prom tho Westminster Ttcilcw Theie Is a j-our.g man In Pekln who would be trembling now In his skin If he were only able to realize properly the danger thnt Is threatened to him and his empire by some of those very kind friends who have come to htm dona ferentes. lie Is tho Emperor Kuang Hsu, euphemistically known, anion,? other outrageous titles, as tho Son of Heaven and Brother of the Sun. He Is the most secluded monarch on earth. When ho nppenrs In public, which Is very rarely, matting Is hung up in front of all the houpes, and strips of cloth nre stretched across the alleys nnd side streets through which the Im pel ial procession must pass. He Is in variably accompanied by a vast retinue of soldiers and an uinij' of courtiers, and the man who peeps arcund the cor ner or has his ej'es fastened to a hole In the matting is liable to be blinded bj' ix bullet or an arrow. AVhcn he la at home he Is oatofully hidden away In the centio of the Chinese city) at I'ekln, nnd j-ou have to go tin ouch three sets of walls simply on Impossi ble task for a European visitor before j'ou approach the building In which lie is kept, guarded by eunuchs. UAitninns -to ijurn" Plrst, there ate the Immense walls ot the gieat Tartar city, which aie sixty foot thick and as tall as a London flat. These Inclose a laige area filled up with the houses of Tartars and government buildings, which inn round a space the middle of which Is known as tho Im perial City. This has a high wall of gray blicks about six miles in clicum feiencv, nnd It includes the outside palac es, tho pleasure grounds, and the temples of the sacied cltv. The em ptier is kept Inside this, nnd his exclu sive quartets are known as the Puiplo Pol bidden City. The walls of this last pen aie lightly guaided. They Inclose the entailers of the emperor, his family, the Indies of the loyal harem, nnd the thousands of eunuchs who make up the "ivants, and include buildings for i otii t c-eiemonles, which are arranged l on ml the sides of a lldge of palaces l mining from the north t the Fo'ith. The emperor himself llvc3 in the noith w ostein pait of tho pen, nnd tlu Ein piess Dowagei has a palace near bj. In another pait of the inclosure is the hall of Iltetarj nbjss, or the impel lal llbrai y, and In this the cabinet ofilceis (about -whom more anon) hold their sessions. Pekln Is n huge eltj credited with 1,500,000 Inhabitants, but apart from the eunuc lis, the toadies, and the woman who haunt the Purple Forbid den City, it is doubtful if 5,000 of this ast number have ever set ejes upon the monirch, and among Kuiopeans and American It Is only the nmbassa dois who are pemiltted to sn?e upon his august countenance. POWER BEHIND THRONE. Thoueh he is generallj" credited with the possession of a voiy ugly tempei, which incite him to smash tho bric-a-brac ot his apirtments when he can not have his own waj his efforts at ruling go no fuither than doing what he Is told to do. He Is kept in order ancestor worship being a strong point in the Celestial moial code by"the old Empiess Dowager, who piactlcally inns the state show, and who Is influ enced sometimes by whim woiking tluough a thin leaien of diluted states manlike feeling, and sometimes bj that backstaiis palace lntilguc which works tluough the favorable medium of her favorite eunuch, Pitslan-H. Kuans Hsu which means The Illustrious Succession-has been under the old lady's thumb since he was 4 years of age, when he was chosen to succeed T'ung chi. She supervised his education. She picked out hU wives for him, and she makes the ladles of his harem skip to day if they don't walk chalk in her presence. Of course she took her own friends when she selected his wives, and she has him so hemmed about with her officials nnd girls that if ho had a will of his own he would't know how to use It. The Empress Dowager, who has bossed tho Tsung-ll-Yamen for a generation, is now 63 years old, She was tho secondary wife of the Emperor Hslen Fung. She was at the head of the emplie during a greater pait of the Taeplng rebellion. She mnnaged its Affairs during it's war with Franco and she has had more than one taste of Russian dlplomacj'. She is said to have a mind of her own, and all of the Chinese respect and fear her. She is a stickler as to form, and Insists that nil business shall be done through the young emperor, through' she really di rects what ha Is to do. She Is even more secluded than tho emperor, and when she receives her officials and the cabinet mlnlnstcrs her practice is to sit behind a screen while they talk at her thiough it unless she has something strong to say to .them. The emperor is 27, lean, under3lzed and unhealthy. Ills features are Tar tar as contradistinguished from Chi nese; the lelgnlng family being (as every one sliouH know, out probably does not) Tartar. He does all his busi ness ut night and hp sleeps In the dav time. Ho begins his work about 2 In the morning, attei a midnight break fast, when ho receives hl.s cabinet min isters, who, on being ushered Into his prssence, f,o down on their knees and perform the seven-faced "Ko-tou" that is, bump their heads again and apaln on the floor. Thay also renml on tholr knees while before htm. Kveiy- thlng about and connected with Ku ing Hsu is regulated by law, even to his meals. According to the old Chinese books there must bo placed before him dally thirty pounds of meat In a basin and Mtvon poutulB boiled Into soup. Ho has a dally allowance of about a pound cf hog's fat and butter, t'nd he has tho right to order two slit ep, two fowls and two ducks, while his dilute for the day Is restricted to the milk of eighty cows and the steeping of seventy-five parcels of tea. It Is probablo that hid teal diet Is different, but these aie tho leg ulatlon provisions, and If he doslies anything that Is not on the menu the board having charge of the Impel lal table, has to lie consulted. It is more than doubtful whether his majesty realizes his exalted situation and his power. Ho has hosn hemmed in and fooled all his life. Ho know nothing ot modern civilization, .mil, in spltu of the reeont war, next to nothing of modern w arfare. He has never review ed, nnd Is not capable of reviewing his army, and his common umusement la to shoot with a bow and arrow. If he ever had in hhn the making of n char nctcr they must havo been ruined long since by his mode of lite and his sur roundings. The supreme bodies which, by tho grnce of the Empress Dowager and tho favorite eunuchs have the direc tion of tho country's nlfalrs, are tho grand council, the ministry of war, and the Tsung-11-Ynmon. The first, which Is erroneously confounded with the last, corresponds to our cabinet, and consists of five membera Prince Kung, the Emperor's uncle, whose principal aim In life now appears to bo to thwait tho Empress Dowager, with whom ho has many stotmy scene; Shlh To, bet ter known to us ns Prince LI, who lias no knowledge of foreign aff till h and hates all "foreign Imrbaitans;" Weiiff Tung-ho, tho Emperor'a piivate tutor, who Is equ-illy conspicuous for his dis like of the barbarians, though ho is credited with' luivlnj taken to tho study of foreign nalrs since the trouble with Japan; Kang Yl, nn otllclal who gained his high office by presenting the emperor, for the puipo.-'es of the late war, with a largo sum ot money, which he had no doubt obtained by extortion of one kind or nnother, and vhos? ap preciation of modem conditions In war fare may bo Judged by the fact that he prefers bows nnd arrows to guns, nnd has ordered that those of his com panies which are provided with tho murderous. ilfle shall use clay bullets, so as to save tho expense ot leaden ones and Chlon Ylng-pu, president of the board of works, who Is slnulaily free from prejudice against foreigners, In spite of the fact that experience has never brought him into proper contact with them. The ministry ot war con sists of Prince Kung (President), Pi luce Chin? (Vice-president), AVeng, Tung ho, and Jung Lu. With two ot these gentlPmen wo havo nlrcady made ac quaintance Prince Oiling (I Kuang) was promoted from the third to the sec ond order of prince four years ago. Ho has held many offices in the capital, among otheis that of nreMdent of the Tsuni,- amen, to which ho still be loi rs. 1 Is lepoited to be a fair minded man lelatlvoly, that is, for he has neu'i been fui ftoin home. Jung I.at is a Manchu, and alls advanced views which nie tiudJ. His lengthy connection with tho ar dopaiunont may or may not account for his Insist ence upon the necessity of showing a bold front to foielgn aggiessdou. THE GRAND COt'NCIU The Tsung-ll-Yumen consists of Prince Kung, Piince Chlng, Weng. Tutig-hc, Kang Yl, and Jung Lu, In ad dition to our estimable old friend, LI Hung Chang, and Chlng HbIii, a stiff and lilgoted nominee of Prince Kung; Chlng LI, a very old man limn whose mature lips drop words of antiquated wisdom; Hsu Ying-wel, n Cantonese, who was once llteiaij chinccllor in Kansu, batwlio has ler.nlned In Pekln for a good twenty yeais past; Llao Shaoheng, elder bi other ot the gover nor of Che-Klang; Chung Yln-huan, who spent twelve years ts minister to the United States, Spain, and Peru, and was special ambassador at tho dia mond Jubilee, and Wu Tlng-fen, the leader of the Reform uaity. The men most capable of offering good counsel In the present cmeigPiicj- are the two last named, but Chang Yin-himn Is of toi low a rank to pocsess nny real In fluence, nnd It Is stated that AVu Tlng fen, despairing ef nny lefoim while the country's affalis aie in the hands of the prejudiced fossils and corrupt sei vants, recently applied for two months' leave of absence to tepalr his nneestral tombs a preliminary- to lelirement. In the multitude of counsel offered by thee vailous officials there Is much, guila but little wisdom, and there Is much plotting on tho pai t of each mem ber of the thiee boards against each and ovrj- one of his fellows. Periodl-callj- the Empiess Dowager comes out, rates them soundly from behind her screen, and if they have done some thing unusually foolish, boxes all their enrs. And between one and another of them the unhappy Sun of Heaven comes i uoppoi. COST OP THE crUAN WAR. Three Vcnrs' Striisalo Hns Not Uccn Inexpensive Sot ltloodlcst. Troin tlio Independent. The piesent rising: In Cuba hep;an nt Yfoarra, province of Matanz.is, Febiu aiy 24, 1S95. lieRlnnlnsj In one of the western piovlnces on a very small scale, it has spread to all paits of the Island, and seems to he as strong;, con fident, and determined today as at any time since It began. Insurgent forces nie found In every one of the provinces. AccoidlnK" to the latest teport of their distribution, appioved by the Cuban junta in this country, there are 3C.500 men In arms, of whom nearly half are In tho cavalry branch of service. He ginning with the westernmost pro vince, Plnar del Rio, which General Weyler pionounced "pacified" before he was recalled, there are, west of Woy ler's trocha nsar Havana, some 7,200 Insurgents, under the command of Gen erals Diaz, L,orente, and Ducasse. Of these, 3,800 are infantry nnd the rest cavalry. These constitute the Sixth army corps. In Havana and Jfatan zas provinces Is the Fifth army corps, commanded by General Itodrlguez.wlth half a dozen chiefs of divisions. This corps consists of 2,300 Infantry and 1, 600 cavalry. Tlia Matanzas division Is In charge of General Hetancourt. In Santa Clara is the Fourth army corps, consisting of 5,700 men, under General Carillo, assisted by Generals Nunez, vVrandq, Monteagudo, and Jose Miguel Gomez. This makes a total of 16,700 men In the western department. In tho two provinces of the eastern depart ment, Tuerto Principe and Snntlago do Cuba, there are about 12,000 men, most of whom nre In the latter province under General Callxto Garcia. In tho former province Is the seat of the Cuban government, at La Uiperanza, In the Cuhltas mountains, nnd tho headquarters of General Gomez, the commander-ln-ehlef of the Cuban forces. These forces are well equipped, and In the eastern department have a plentiful supply of food. Thirty thou sand Cubans, not In active service, are, It Is said, tilling tho ground nnd fur nishing food to the Insurgents, The Spanish army Is supposed to number 150,000 or more, under the general com mand of Captain General Illanco. In Cuban waters Is a considerable Span ish navy, consisting of seven cruisers, nineteen gunboats (small), one trans port, live torpedo boats, and twenty four launches. It 1b the purpose of this fleet to prevent the Insurgents from re ceiving aims, ammunition, and supplies from tho United States and other out side sources, Tho cost of the war .to Spain has been, so far, $280,000,000, and tho yearly expenditure la about $35, 000,000. i m IIoiHtorotis. "They say Jlbway's new suit Is tre meiulously loud." "l.oucll Why, It BOltld dlbtuib tho nap of a silk hat!" JONAS LONG'S SONS. nh added little things to save you many steps. No such bargain in Scranton before. The assortment will be broken by tonight, take advantage of this great sale. Engraved Tumblers, Cre.im and Sugar Sets, All Size Glass Globes. China Egg Cups (two), Decorated Sauce Dishes, Yellow Mixing Bowl, Vegetable Dishes, - Pressed Glass Goblets, Glass Custard Cups, Glass Cheese Plates, Lemon Squeezers, Braided Carpet Beaters, Clothes Line Pulleys, -. 1 r V vup anu oauccr, Fancy Match Safes Heavy Tin Cup, Breacf Pans, Fiy Pans, Butter Prints, 2-Qt Sauce Pans, Wood Spoons all sizes, Heavy Scrub Brushes, w On 4c. Counters o o Wire Strainers 5 styles, Dairy Pans, i to 6 quarts, AND ONE HUNDRED OTHER Another Grand "Sousa Concert" Saturday Evening All the Special Compositions ot the famous "March King" John Philip Sousa by Prof. Bauer's Celebrated Orchestra. JONAS LONG'S SONS i 'THE February If you've a Shoe want, now is the time, while our Feb ruary Sale is still on, to satisfy it, at a money-saving cost. All our $6.00 Shoes are, during this sale $4.50. Our $5.00 Shoes $3.95. Our $4.00 Shoes $2.95. Our $3.00 and $3.50 Shoes $2.45. Our $2.50 Shoes $1.95. These prices are for both Ladies and Men's wear and represent the very cream of the stock; the latest and most de sirable styles. We've lower priced goods and at the same proportionate reductions. $2.00 Shoes for $1.45. $1.75 grades for $1.25. $1.50 grades for $1.15. $1.25 grades for 95 cents. And so on throughout the entire stock. Besides the above regular stock we've sorted out all the odds and ends and broken lots; shoes slightly soiled and line? which we wish to discontinue using, and placed them on table? at prices that run like this : Ladies' Shoes, small sizes, $3, $4 and $5 grades, at 50 cents and $1.00 a pair. Men's Shoes, most all sizes and widths, regular $5 and $6 grades, at $2.50 and $3 a pair. Hisses' and Children's Shoes different kinds some worth $1.25 for 50 cents, others worth $2 and J $2.50 a pair, now 75 cents and $1 a pair. Our Semi-Annual Sales are rare money-saving opportuni ties and the advantage of buying now is apparent. The Newark Shoe Store Corner Lackawanna and Wyoming Avenues. ALL thu wivus hi: wants. A lUnn Mny Legally Take, I'rovidcd Ho Mnrrv Them Simultaneously. A correspondent has lequested Law Notes to advise him how many women a man may marry at once without vio lating any law. This being a mixed question of law and love, and our specialty being law, we feel some hes itation In expiesslng our opinion. There seems to be no leason why he may not marry as many as will have him, pio vlded the ceremony be not perfoimed "In a territory or other place over which fhe United States has excluslvo Jurisdiction." The earliest statute on the subject of polyamy or bigamy (I. Jac. 1, c. 11) enacted "that If any person or per sons within England nnd Wales, be ing married, or hereafter shall mairy, do marry nny person or persons, tho former hushnnd or wlfo being alive, each offence shall bo felony." The statutes 35 Oeo. III., c. 67, and 4 Geo, 1., c. 11, have merely changed the pun ishment (1 East P. C, 401). The stat utes ot the several states go no fur ther, In terms, than to provide that no person "who has a former husband or wife living shall many another" Un der theso statutes It would seem that It was not unlawful for a single man to marry as many single women sim ultaneously as can place themselves within the reach of his volco and the voice of tho preacher or olllcer per forming tho ceremony. It may be that a court to whom the JONAS LONG'S SONS. i i-iJ-i'iiii-,-iiivi--w"M'vifM-K-'i rvirwmVAjji IX HUNDRED SQUARE FEET of Counter Room was devoted yesterday to the selling of two crcat lots of HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS at 4 cents and 9 cents. Most everything you could think of was in the assortment vet todav new thlnsis are Tin Tea and Coffee Pots, Decorated Cuspidores, 4-qt. Sprinkling Pots, 4-qt. Enameled Stew Pans Miners' a-qt Tea Bottles, Japan'd Tea & ColTec Cans Large wash dishes Tea Strainers, Egg Beaters, Wire Broilers, Paint Brushes, 500 Carpet Tacks, Nickel Iron Stands Pierced Ladles. uas (jiobes, Wash Boards, Comb Cases, Nickel Hammers, Garden Scrapers, Hatchets, Carpet Beaters. Brass Locks, Hall Racks, Work Large Agate Jelly THINGS. AND TWO NEWARK'S" le of Fine Footwear question were presented would, by some refinements and subtleties, and by "considering the Intent of tho leg islature," and construction of the stat ute "accoidlng to its snlrlt," ete., de vise some means by which to Inter rupt the wild career of conjugal felic ity which our correspondent proposes and send him to Jail, but Law Notes, construing the statutes as all penal statutes should bo consttued, strictly, sees no offence In the multifarious mai rlage which ho has In mind. We feel Indisposed to extend tho language of the legislature so as to make It Include cases not emhiaced In Its terms. It Is not unreasonable to presume that the legislature Intended merely to piotect Innocent and unwairy persons from marrying others alieady married, In Ignorance of the previous marriage, and to prevent wives and husbands from deserting their consorts for oth ers. We do not know that the legisla ture Intended to prevent a man from marrying more than ono woman sim ultaneously, when It could so easily and In such few words have said so' This position finds strength In tho fact that the Edmunds act (act Con. March 2.', 1882), declines expressly, In addition to tho usual provision, , that "any man who hereafter simultaneous ly, or on the same day, marries jnore than one woman, In n territory or other place over which the United States has excluslvo Jurisdiction,' Is guilty of po lygamy," thereby recognizing that tho usual provision does not meet the case in question, JONAS LONG'S SONS) 9C opportunity has been known so come today if you would Japanned Dust Pans, 2-Blade Chopping Knives. Heavy Towel Rollers, Long Handle Dusters, Braided Potato Mashers, Fry Pans, Dust Pans, XIilnl eirwtn liftnra ""--""" ""'a v.ua t nous, Mirrors, Scrub Brushes, Salt Boxes, Fine Shoe Brushes S-Qt Sauce Pans, I'nftc1 irnn hnnHInc Baskets Moulds, Dinner Pails cup lops, io-qt chamber pails (covor) HUNDRED OTHER THINGS, MIOTIM'.D" 1,I;UT. S. II. Nickum, of I.nguiipport, Ind.. H an Inventor of local itlebrit, havhu been the autlior ot numeious putcnU nt alue, among which H the pointed switch rail now in use uti u Hro.uU His lateil invention Is a rew light, which Ih nt trading much attention. Ho certainly makes extruordlnaiy claims, which, If substantiated will place him high on tho list. For obWous icasnns he does not ns it make Known tlio exnet natuie of his discover, but sa. "The light is con tained in a round glass globe, In which so-called graltation U eut off. It can he mado of almost any brilliancy, and when thu globes are once made and Healed, re mains constant thereufter. Thero are no wires nor electric current, but tho llgt Is continuous, and when not In uso can be placed In a bin can drawer, or any com unlet) t pluce until needed. Tlio globa Is cold, there being no loss ot heat or movement fiom the Interior to tho out' uhle. ' "There Is no possibility of a file re sultlnc. from the uo of the light, ror tin Instant there Is a crack In tlio globe tho light Is extinguished. They caif hi broken In a keg of gunpowder without the Kllslitest danger of explosion. "Light Is a high period of moving atoms to and from a center, tho center atoms being mado to vibrate bo .rapidW that tho eo Is mado Insensible to such movement. In this Is the ptlnclplei of tho new light "-New Idea?. A Oospornte Memuro. I'rom the Chlct go Hecord. "Jones has married his cook.' "Well, he Is fixed for good meals tho rest of his da s." "Perhaps: ho married her to keep her from cooking." ' o On 9c. Counters o V
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