10 TL1U SCKAiNTOiN TLUmiSE- SATntDAV, APRIL 23, 1808. How the Battles of the Fniityre Will Be FoMsrht Physics .and Chemistry lYlay Deckle Them and Our Big, Battleships Be Useless. l'nurt tho riilliiilelplilu I'icss "Tlio nuxt iirinvl cnnlllct In liicli Undo Hum Is called uron tn imgaip will bo a. wnt' of iihyxlrn and clipinlstiy. We Hio on tliu wIro of a Rioat revolution In tlio utt or lighting, ami before Ioiir tlm Methods of war fate irrot iiipioet today Will 1p lcRHKlc.il as whollj nUi of dnlo. "Twenty s tn I m nj-n ficiin now, leck onlnw nt Hie eiy farthest, theip will bo no lloatlnh' fortieses of the kind whlrh we call h.itllc-Hhlp: they will be Conl(Ieic(l as ietiL""'ntlliK an obsolete type of mivil aii'hltictuie, and their plrteo will be taken b estlM comp.if ntlvely xnmll. et Inllnltely nmie fur lilklable and d(Strtletie "lly that time, also, electiklty will litive made Itx appearaneo as an active flKcnt of destinetlon and tnllitary en film."" of all sons will have assumed foiius as yet undreamed of." The lemnrks above quoted were made by a Koverninent olllclal who Is one of the foremost eleritllle men In this count! y. Imposing t). condition thut his name should not be mentioned lie plOc.eeded to develop the Idea by a t-erles. of suhkcH'mis so striking as to excite the utmost Interrst. He said. i:xim.osivi:s "Yo lllustiate the tendency of the de velopment of warfare at pi event I will lofer to the wlplnj,' out of the battle ship Maine. I could have taken just about thiee men to nceornplls-h the tie. slrtiction of that Klttnntle lighting ma chine If they had a laiRe iiu.urtlty of nltro-Klyceilne or some such lilKh ex plosive, packed In b.iRs impel vlou to water. In each Iijk they mlRht place just enough coik to give the contents the speclllc gr.ivltv of water approxi mately. Dragging 'he bags, one or more of the men could hae swum out to within a short distance of the ship, t lion dived and swum tindei water to escapes observation and came up under the wife hhelter of the side of the Nes ted. To attach the bags to the bottom of the ship would have been easy, and n chemical time fuse that would burn under water could be Ignited leadlly enough, pei mlttlng the assassins to swim nwuy at their lelsur "In some such wayns this the Maine could have been destrojeil. 1 onl cite tire case to illustrate the cast with which n mighty win ship o this descrip tion can he destrcived by two u thit determined men at a minimum uf cust j few dollart-' wortlr of high explosives will wipe out $1,000,000 worth ol lighting llinchireiy and several bundled lives "If half a dozen hostile vessels of war entitled Into the luilxir or New Vcik they would be annihilated very quickly, nut by our own waishlps, but by small gioups of couiageous men with so-called Infernal machines of one kind or another. When thU soil of thing can happen, and is alvvajs likely to occur, it means that tin- fighting .ship of the type elese r ilied Is out of dute. The modem battleship is const! ucted, h to speak, on a gunpowder basis; in the building of them no more ac count ii taken of high explosives than if th'ie were no such thing. Out it Is pel iectly ceitaln Hint the wars of the Sinmei'late futuie aie to be prosecuted with high explosive s. xnvi'it tuii:d. "Vnrr must reniondier that an vet no ntltxtmte test of the cfliclencv of bnt tlesllloa has been made In piactlce; they nre tullt on theoij. Wliat does their Htrongth airu unt to. the thickness of their armor and the weight of pro jectiles the, can llnovv, if they can be so lendlly destroyed " They represent il putting nt matter Irr the wiong place In u iriubeum of nntuial history you will sec the skeletons ol marry extinct nnltnals which have lived at ailous epoch; of the eai th's hltoi. You can tell at a glance the very ancient skele tons from those which belong to crea tines of most recent times, because the latter me so much llghtei and moie graceful, representing Improveil types. In one of these gieat wainhips you see a nmwiiiB of material teg.irdlcss of ex pense'and without leg.trd to nrattlc.il con.lltlons. Theiofiue, this species of vessel is doomed to eaily extinction. 111:. the huge and unvvieldly inuininalt of tile Pliocene. "The groat warship and the gieat gun are tho naval Ideals of toda. Uoth f ' them are based on what? On gun powder. Moder rr forts, both on land ami on sea, are built on a gunpowder basis, and without any consideration or high explosives. The very brains of jinny and navy men all over the world are adjusted to gunpowder. uis it were. Mllllnry experts, geneially speaking, tela unable to think of war except in tornis of gunpowder. Tut gunpowder is practically out of date. TORPEDO ROATP. "The day of hlgh-power explosives has arrived; they constitute the postu late to which Ideas of w at faro must bo adjusted. These explosives have car lied tho nrt of war beyond the .stage when tho battleshlpcan be useful. With their aid it is as easy to destroy the strongest unnoted ship us to smash up it ivuuuun scnooner. it Is nut possible to predict with confidence Just what the character of the fighting vessels of the filturo will be, but a suggestion In that direction seems to be nffoided by the torpedo boat. A torpedo boat costs $73,000, and joti can build a whole fleet of such craft for the com of one battle ship. "Tho advantage of high explosives Is that only a little power Is required to convey them to tho pluco where they are to do work. Their adoption as u means of eiestractlon Is certain to In troduce an cntirelv now paries of In ventions for war. Tlio development of the art of war from this tlmo on will be a battle of Invention If hostilities Fhould break out between Spain and the United States, Invention In this line would be marvelous!' stimulated. INVENTIVENESS. "Has it ever occurred to you to think of the fact that during our own Civil War a gi eater number of fighting run chinos were invented thurr in all the history of the world up to that time' Tlio Franco-Prussian conflict gave a OR. E. C. WEST'S NERVE AND BRAIN TREATMENT ,t3TRcd Label Special,! tiia oimiuwi. Liw." 'For Imnotencv. rin ntWl79 .r -" . 7- -...' rower, iwkt niannood, rueriuiy ur uarrounesa.1 fy'.jjjj .CftJMM wwei mv T-Sjgr Iflt Htennty or Uarrtmnoss.! tl a boz eix for S3, witti written (suartiutoi-Sf . ... tUIOIUWUUJBl UL DLuruci lUCi-uncorbyniall. AFTER tV'm. 0. Clarke, 336 I'cnn Ave.. Scran on, I'a m cut stlinuluH in mllltnrv Invention. We, of course, ate 11 nation of Invent 01s A war with Spain would bilng Into existence many contrivances for destruction far surpassing what lrns hltheito been devised. The Spaniards, themselves, not at all an inventive peo ple, would think that they hud come up against a nation of devils. "It Is logically piopcr to assume an absuidlty for the sake of argument. Let us assume, their, that we weie driven from the seas nctually by the Spaniards, and that our defeat was ab solute ant ovei whelming. The wind up of the whole affair would nevelthe levs be the total wlplng-out of Spain: for We would build vcsels adjusted to uqulii'menU. 'Theie 1- no telling what we might do with eleetilelty, which doubtless l destined to play n part In future w in fill e as an active agent of destruction Teleciaphy without wire Is as yet in its infancy, but something veiy sub stantial In this line has been accom plished alread.v. If we can ennvej. as we do, to a distance and without a wire, enough energy to communicate Intelligence, we shall be able befote long to convey enough energ to work Injury. As our control of ulectrlcal err or gy becomes more complete vvc can extend Its reach further and furthei. It does not seem wholly Impiobablr thut the time will come when we shall be able to explode the magazine of u ship without going near It. TilH VESUVIUS. "The onl attempt thus fat made by the United States In the direction of utilizing high explosives for purposes of naval waifare. If toipedoes be ex cepted, is lepresentecl by tho so-called dynamite cruiser Vesuvius, which Is now In the nelghlKirhood of Key West. This vessel has on her forvvnid deck tlnee IC-Inch guns which thiow pio- jectile.s loaded with dvnumite a dis tance of a mile. The ship is onlj tin experiment, and her practical utility is regaided by naval authoiltles as ve-ry doubtful. The pioblein of throwing high explosives with safetv to those who use them has not yet been solved sutlsfacttnll. No explosive Is good for lighting pui poes that can be touched off bv shock or otherwise than by ac tual contact with Hie. The stuft called explosive gelatine,' for example, Is the inot poweiful of all known explosives, being fifteen times as strong as gun powder. It Is made by dissolving gun cotton In nitro-glyeerlne, the prepara tion having the consistency of honey. Rut It Is very unsafe foi use In battle, because a bullet striking It will set It off by concussion. DEADLY OASES. "It Is extiemelv llkelv that Irr the next gieat war shells that liberate poisonous gaes on explosion w ill be emplipcd It has been suggested that bombs loaded with hveliocvanic acid ga.s under pressure could be thus util ized, releasing huch fumes on bursting as would destroy all life in the neigh borhood. The French 'melinite' has for Us b.T-e a coal-tar product termed pic lie acid, its consistency Is about that or molasses, nnd It is poured Into shells and permitted to harden. This stuff Is entliely safes to handle, though thiee times as powerful as gunpowder. The fumes set flee by the bursting of a bomb loaded with it aie most eloadl. A single one, fired experimentally at a vessel on the deck of which had been placed a number of sheep and goats, killed by suffocation all of the animals that weie not destioyed by the 11 Ins fragments. If a shell loaded with hy diocvanlc acid sras this h the same thing as prusslc acid, and the dead liest ol all poisons should be llud into a ship and explode Inside of the vessel, pietty neailv eveiybody on boaid would study peilsh. "In the recently published novel, 'War of the Worlds,' which describes an attack by Murtlans upon the earth, tho absuilants from the sister planet aie lepresented ha destroying immense nunibuis of people by letting loose a cloud of black vapor that sinks to the ground nnd smotlieiB to death eveiv llv ing thing. The author may have had in his mind bisulphide of cat bun, an extremely explosive substance which readily iesolvc Itself into a nw-t deadly gas when exposed to the atmosphere. This gas Is heavier than tilr, and so sinks. The newly Invented 'smoko gionades' nie filled with chem ical mibstanceh which, on explosion, piodiue clouds of dense black smoke; they are int-nded to be cnrrled in ad vance by skirmishers and tin own so as to conceal the troops following A novel Herman contrivance is a bomb, which on exploding, scatters highly In llanrmnble substances far and wide. A single one bju sting over a town would set a whole district on lire nt once. This kind of Infernal machine Is ele hlgneel also for burning ships at sea. RAM.OONS. "Respecting tho procspects of using btilloons and flying machines In war, a great deul has been said, but It is all highly speculative. Ralloons may bo employed to diop explosives, but they are not very manageable, being to a gieat extent at the mercy of air euiienth. Novel theless. It io said that both Oeimnny and France now have balloons that can be steered and pio pelled against a pretty stiong bieeze It goes without saying that If a really practical flying machine i.hould over bo devised. It would wholly revolution ize warfare. No foit could bo built that would bo stiong enough to with stand high explosives dropped from above, and ships would be equally ex posed to destruction. Under such con ditions, wurfaro would necessarily be tiansfencd from the land und sea to the air, und the quarrels of nations would be decided by battlcu between fleets or alislilps. "Chemlstiy and physics, ns I have said, will bo the basis of the waifare of tho future. Under the former of theso two heads comes photography, which will be largely employed. The latent Invention In aerial photogianhy is Intended for military use. It is a bomb containing a camera und a para chute, and Is fired vertically Into the ulr from a 11101 tar. When 1.000 feet or so above the earth it explodes, liberat ing the camera, which Is upheld in tho ulr by tho parachute. Then the cumera tokes ono or more snai shot pictures of tlio landscape below. It is weighted ulllclently to make it sink pretty rapidly, so thut It lands not far from where It staitod, and Is prompt ly picked up Obviously, photographs thus taken will be of the utmost value to a commanding genernl In war time, giving him u survey of the Held, of the distribution of the enemy s troops nnd of hostile eiitrcrrchnientfl and fottlflea tlons. Such bombs might be titlllreil to advantage by warships ut sea, for obtaining uotlllcatlon of the uppto.ioh of n hostllr fleet lung bi'foio the Ves sels hove Irr sight. Owing to the curv ature of the earth, a ship Is Invisible at 11 distance of only a few miles on the ocean, In this case the parachute and camera could be jirovldeel with a conspicuous float, so as to be found nnd recovered readily after reaching the water " IIIMTIMI I",l,r,(il SPEAKER. The Rrittsh watktugmnn ma not 1 a particularly clever gentleman, but he falrl bristles with peculiarities. Ediiru- j tlon has not wiped away his ehtiiaeter- Istles. He still hns opinions uf bis own and can still find something original to say for himself. Nor does he forget to , sav It. It gives him especial pluasure to state his views at a meeting of his ' political opponents. He will organise an opposition meeting In the middle of the halt and procied to addiess it himself. Or he may confine his nttentlon to the speech of the evening and cast humor ous doubts upon Its author's political Information. I have kiown n meeting till own Into utter confusion because a speaker hap pened to mention the ear 1784 and a woiklngmnn Insisted on knowing, be foie they werrt any fuither, who wns King or EnclJiuI at that time The speaker, a tilfle unoeituln hlmseir as to whether It was Oeorge HI. or Oeorge IV.. refused to answer, and the work lngman's thirst foi knowledge had to lemnln unquenched unless the police man who cast him forth was able to satisfy it. In Enginnd these Interruptions nre taken ns matters or course A speaker expects to find u fair spi Inkling of op ponents among his audience, and the consciousness of their piesence makes him more careful In what he s.is, more precise and argumentative than IT he were addiesing a puiely partisan mm gMMil MMT ifipSACT rsHtw HiNcrin?wXi'tiaNew yoH7 gather Irrg The man who tnces n meet ing carr nlwavs be eerraln of the meas ure of his success 01 failure. No Eng lish audience will stand a spcukcr who boies them If he falls to piove atliac tlve he Is Informed of the fact with a singular absence of bashfulness. It Is not a good ndvertlement for our 11a tlorrnl manners, but It keeps a meeting lively and puts nn effective check oir pompous dullards Some kind of sport we must have, even In our politics In the good old days dead cats und rotten eggs used to come (lying like bewilder ing meteors lound a candidate's head. Now he Is "heckled" and pelted with questions instead A man In the aud ience Is allowed to catechise him on evety in tide of his political faith to Inquire Into his votes In the House of Commons, and to nsk him how he stands with regard to particular meas ures. And bv the custom of the coun ti.V the candidate Is bound to answer all leasonuble questions, fullv and de finitely. S due lirooks In The Chau-tauquuu. fl"ttv Br ff The Largest hxcluslvcly nilllncry Store in the State. PICTURE HATS Are Fashion's Latest Fad. 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