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Thi-x've gone away, responsive to our leader.
call for men.
Oh. If thoe nutn-htng toys In blue might all
conie hark again !
Oil, if it only might bo ao that when their
wirt is done
! They eight r turn aa now they go earn
fatlu r lisiMand, lover, Hon I
At, proudly they have marched away to lo
hate'er tbey mibl.
To meet the foemen iu the fray, returning
thrust for thrust !
But some, when guug have ceased to roar and
flag have ceased to fly.
Will lie upon wmc other atiore, beneath some
other sky.
They've marched awav, with banners ray.
with manly Kteps and proud ;
They've gone to mingle in the fray, admired
by the erowd,
And some among them aa Uiey puss will bear
our cheers again.
And some whocheer to-day, alas, wilt weep
for lost one then !
ti. E. Kiserin Cleveland Leader.
SCHLEY'S VICTORY
WAS COMPLETE,
The Spaniard Beached the Last
of Their Ship in the Har
bor of Santiago.
400 KILLED AND 1,600 PEISOITEES
iviAUM-tor, Jamaica, July ft. in a
frantic effort to block the entrance tp
Santiago harbor and nave the city from
bombardment by the American fleet,
the Spanish, early yesterday morning.
ran the Reina Mercedes ashore not far
from the wreck of the Merrimac This
move was decided upon when it became
known that Admiral Cervera would
take his fleet from the harbor and at-
tempt to escape. There was a feeling
of temporary security in the city a
long as Cervera's fleet was there to op
pose the American fleet should Admiral
rSauopson succeed in running past the
forts. With the -ffrHnish fleet cone.
however, the mines in the harbor were
practically the city's only defense
agr.'nst a bombardment. Hi Reina
Mercedes, which had been ueI as a
hospital ship, was sent out toward the
mouth of tlse harbor, and there run
ashore. Those in charge of her did not
succeed in their mission, for the vessel
does not block the entrance.
Admiral Hampsou, when he learned
of the Spanish attempt to imitate Hob
sou's feat, decided to give his men somn
target practice, with the lteina Merce
des as a targeL He ordered the Indi
ana to throw a few shells iulo the Span-
is1! vessel. The Indiana started inshore
ou this mission shortly before 12 o'clock
la.st night. The battleship crept slowly
foi ward toescape detection. When she
had been maneuvered to a command
ing position she poured a broadside
from her batteries in the direction of
the lleinu Mercedes. It was impossi
ble, owing to the darkness, to deter
mine just what was the effect of the
Indiana's fire on the Spanish vercsel.
While making preparations for the at
tack a shell burst below the Indiana's
forward deck, the ezplosiou tearing a
hole through the deck. Fortunately,
none ot the Americans were killed.
The American loss iu destroying Cer-
vera's fleet was but one killed and two
wounded. All were ou the Brooklyn.
The Spanish loss is estimated at 400
killed and l00 taken prisoners. Five
hundred of the prisoners are wounded,
2U0 seriously, aud 300 slightly.. Those
whose wounds are most serious have
beeir transferred to the Solace and the
Olivette. Thtre are TOO of the prison
ers on the Harvard, 300 on the St. Louis
and 500 on the Resolute, while the other
prisoners are distributed about the other
vessels of the fleet. Admiral Cervera
is on the Iowa, Captain Eulute aboard
the St. Iouis, and the commander of
the Cristobal Colon is on Admiral
Sampson's flagship.
The commander of the Oijuendo, who
committed suicide, made plans to have
his vessel destroyed. When he saw
that his ship could not much longer
withstand the fire of the American
fleet, he ordered all of his men below,
had the hatches closed, poured oil on
the decs and applied a torch. He then
fired a pistol-shot into his brain. Cap
tain Eulate suffered the heaviest loss of
any of the Spanish commanders. More
than half of the crew of the Vizcaya
were killed. The naval battle lasted 5ti
minutes, but during that time the Span
iards were unable to inflict even slight
damage on our fleet. Commodore
Schley says the Brooklyn was hit 3(
times, but all of the enemy's shot fell
harmlessly into the sea. The meu on
Admiral Cervera's flagship were par
alyzed with fear. After they had run
up a white flag, and while the Ameri
cans were approaching the Colon to
take them otf, the nieu shouted, "Viva
los Americanos," at the same time ap
pealing for mercy. Oflicers and crew,
numUriiig 504 men, Mere taken on
board the Brooklyn, and yesterday
were transferred to the Resolute. An
attempt was made by the Oregon to
drag the Cristobal Colon off the reef
on which she struck. This only made
matters worse, and the Spanish vessel
now is lying broadside ou, aud is fast
going to piece a.
CapL 'Bob' Evans cjui'-kly brought to
terms some Cuban sharpshooters, who,
after the fleet had been destroyed, were
picking off helpless Spanish sailors
who drifted past ou bits of wreckage.
These sharpshooters also were firing at
Spaniards struggling toward shore.
Capt. Evans landed some marines from
the Iowa to protect the survivors and
sent word to the Cubans that he would
shell their positions if they continued
their guerrilla tactics. This warning
had the desired effect and no further
trouble of that kind was experienced.
The work of rescuing the Spanish
survivors was directed by Lieut. Bell,
of the Harvard. The Chicago naval
reserves manned boats and dragged the
exhausted Spaniards from the wreck
age aiid tbe water. To get the surviv
ors back on board tbe hipe it was
necessary to 11 them with brandy.
Most of the Spanish seamen were
druck during Sunday's battle, they
having been well supplied with liquor
on tb 1 night before the fleet made Its
dash ioi the sea.
Constat t danger attended tbe res
cuing ot the Spaniards, owing to the
frequent explosions on board Cervera's
ship, all of whioh were heavily stock
SOMERSET,
ed with ammunition. From Sunday
noon until yesterday morning the men
in our fleet were treated to a most re
markable exhibition of fireworks. The
Spanish survivors were practically
naked when rescued, but within au
iiour clothing and shoes had been pro
vided for alL They had been made
quite comfortable by Sunday evening.
They will be sent north to-morrow on
the Harvard and the St. Louis. Ad
miral Cervera, I am informed, obtain
ed his first news of Dewey's victory
after he had been taken a prisoner.
Capt. Ussher, of the Ericsson, made a
hard run to get a shot at the Vizcaya,
but a white flag was floating over Capt.
Fulate's vessel when the torpedo boat
came up.
"The American shells had torn hoies
through the Vizeaya's 12-inch plates,"
said CapL Ussher afterwards, "and
through them I could see naked men,
bloody and gashed, roasting in the
shell. Her guns had been shotted and
were going off by themselves from the
heat, but by care we were able to get
alongside. Her decks and sides were
red hot. Two men were climbing
down a davit tackle and as the ship
rolled they would swing against her
scorching sides, then swing back and
out again. I took 110 men off the
Vizcaya, all bare as when they were
born. I know no worse sight than
naked men with bleeding wounds ex
posed. One swam toward me. 'Are
you also an officer? I asked. 'No,' he
answered, 'only a mournful soldier.'
From none of the wounded came a
whimper or a groan. In my dreams
I bad seen the Vizcaya iu just this dis
tress, and had succored her crew. In
disposing of them I placed them about
my little deck just as I had done in my
drtam."
Fn ru the third officer of the Infanta
Teresa it Is learned that the Spanish
were overwhelmed by the intensity of
the American fire. "We could not
breathe," he said "and were blinded by
the tire. We knew from the first that
we had no chance of escape."
Admiral Cervera's preparations for
dashing out of Santiago harbor had
been underway four days. Not only
did he have a large supply of ammuni
tion ou board, but he had taken on pro
vision enough for a long voyage. ' One
of Cervera's officers, I am told, de
clares that the attempt to escape was
done for its political effect iu Spain,
rather than with any hop that it would
be successful. Admiral Sampson has
been giving much thought to the possi
bility of saving one or more of Cervera'
shijs. The admiral to-day inspected
the wrecks and found the armor plates
of the vessels perforated with holes.
The Vi.caya is little more than a sieve.
Clara Barton'a Manner.
Miss Barton is a regular liohemian,
said a Red Cross nurse to a representa
tive of the New York Tribune. No
daily frequenter of little out-of-the-way
tables d'hote is a more thorough Bolh
miau than is Miss Barton. When she
is in New York she is never happier
than when taking her meals hit orinLts
somewhere anywhere! The odder
the place and time the lietter it suits
her. As to time, Miss Barton never
bothers herself. She gets things done
when she gets around to it, and if she
has planned a thing for Tuesday morn
ing, aud gets it done on Thursday after
noon, it is all right. There may be
considerable remonstrance and fussing
on the jiart of those who were to do
things with her, but she is never flut
tered In the least by that. She just
pursues the even tenor of her way, and
if a President and a Cabinet have to
wait a while because she isn't just on
time for her appointment, well, it U
Miss Barton, and they simply wait.
The point about Miss Barton is that
she does get things done, and done
well, even if it is at her own time and
in her own way. She is often subjected
to much criticism on this account front
the women associated with her, because
most people get nervous when they
wait for things to be put through. Missi
Barton isn't troubled with nerves, how
ever, ror more than a week durinr
her stay in Washington she had been
intending to go out to Camp Alger t
visit the camp hospitals. Several of
the women interested iu the Red Cross
and general relief work had obtained
permission to gj with her. Daily they
met and sat around and waited. Mis
Barton would be heard of by telephone,
was here, was there, would meet them
in a few minutes, was called to the War
Department or the Navy Dejiartmeut
possibly could not get out to camp to
day, etc After waiting some hours.
the women would gather up fans, par
asols, satchels, and, with wilted collars
aud slightly ruffled feelings, go home,
and return to tbe meetinjr-place next
day. After a week Miss Barton got to
the camp. She had landed t lie re on
Sunday, and none cf the other women
caught up with her. They were not
needed, for she attended to it all when
she finally got round to it. She is what
is called "happy-go-lucky in her ways,
aud what some would considers fail
ing endears her greatly to the masses
of suffering men, who look on her as a
good sort of saint.
You never ask "What's in a name?"
after you see the magic it works in a
camp hospital wbeu the word goes
around that "Miss Barton is corning.' i
i ue men may never have seen her, but 1
they know she has come for their spe
cial benefit, and they pin their faith on
the name that good deeds have made
known tbe world over. Miss Barton
cau get right down to the level of all
her "boys," and they love her easy,
pleasant ways.
Mr. C. B. Bush, president of the Gil
mer county court, tells onefly his ex
perience with an epidemic of bloody
flux in his family. He write under
date of Octobers, 1S9G, at Auburn W.
Vjl "During tbe past summer we
had three cases of bloody flux in our
family which we cured in less thaa one
week with Chamberlain's Colic, Chol
era and Diarrhoea Remedy. la some
instances there were twent hem
morbages a day." This remedy never
fails to cure tbe worst case of bloody
flux and ail bowel complaints aud every
family should keep it at hand. For
sale by all druggists.
rse
ESTABLISHED
PA., WEDNESDAY,
Gunnery of Americans
Was Most Deadly.
Spanish Sailors Deserted Their Gnu
And were Shot Down, by Their
Own Officers.
EUOYED TJP WITH FINE WISES
Bv W. R. Hearst,
Editor of the N. Y. Journal.
On the quarter deck of the Spanish
cruiser Vizcaya, now lying beached on
the southern coast of Cuba, gaping
shot wounds in her port side, her bow
blown out by tbe explosion of some for
ward magazine or torpedo, blackened
by fire, beaten by waves, and as nearly
a collection of scrap iron as a once
splendid battleship can be, July 4, by
way of Port Antonio, July 5.
Last night's story of the mighty
fight, of our glorious victory and of
the complete destruction of the Span
ish fleet has been told. Early this
morning we headed our press boat Sil
via down the coast to inspect more
closely than we could yesterday, when
the fire was sweeping them, the wreck
el and ruined leviathans of Spain's
navy. They lie with their heads buried
in the sand, as if to hide from them
selves the sight 01 their own destruc
tion and humiliation.
The first wreck we approached was
the Almirante Oquendo. She lies in a
small bay well up on t.te beach, her
steel sides scarred by many shots, and
with one tremendous hole on the port
bow, showing where a big 13-inch shell
from one of our battleships must have
exploded. She has also a Urge rent aft
on tbe port quarter, near the water line.
Her military masts have been swept
overboard and her decks are clear of
top hammer down to the turrets and
the guns. We lowered a boat to visit
her, and as we came alongside a shock'
ing sight met our eyes. Dead Span
iards were floating all about in the wa
ter, stripped to tbe waist, as they had
stood to man their guns. We steered
nervously among the bodies, feeling
much pity, and some satisfaction, too,
that the Maine had been again so well
remembered. About this time the Su
wanee came up and senf tbe fampus
Lieutenant Blue ashore in her whale
boat to look for survivors and take them
prisoners. We determined to follow,
though we had neither lifeboat nor life-
preservers, and though the surf was
running high and strong ou the rocky
beach. But, deciding to swim for it if
we were upset, we dragged offourcloth
ing, and headed our jollyboat for the
shore.
Lieutenant Blue's boat was some 20
yards ahead of us when we saw a huge
breaker lift it forward and throw the
officer overboard into the white froth
of the sea. We would have turned
back then if we had leen able, but it
was too late. We were in the breakers.
One after another the huge rollers broke
under us and over us, lifted us high on
their curling backs ami shot us at the
shore. When the first scrape of gravel
sounded under our keel we jumped out
and dragged tbe boat onto the beach.
Lieutenant Blue had been safely
hauled ashore by his crew and was in
terviewing a band of Cubans, who like
wise were looking for Spaniards. But
as of Spaniards there were none, the
Lieutenant pushed out through the
breakers, boarded the Su wanee and put
to sea again.
We had concluded, however, that It
would be a glorious thing to capture a
few Spanish prisoners ourselves, so we
joined some pn-ss boats and headed for
the Infanta Maria Teresa, further along
to the east.
This vessel is not in quite so bad a
condition as tbe Oquendo. Blackened
by fire and battered by shells she cer
tainly is, but her after military mast
still stands, her bridge, though much
bent and twisted, is recognizable, and
she has not such terrible shot wounds
in her hull as the Oqueudo has. Nev
ertheless she was the first of the Span
ish ships yesterday to give up the fight
and head for the shore. We found her
still smoldering. In tbe fire the car
tridges occasionally popped, as tboi!
feebly endeavoring to continue the
fight.
While William Hemnient photo
graphed the wreck, I scanned the
shore for Spaniards, aud finally saw a
score of figures huddled together in
one corner of the beach. We shouted
to them, at the same time making a
demonstration with our firearms, aud
the poor, cowed fellows with great alac
rity waved a white handkerchief or
shirt in token of surrender. I jumped
overboard, swam ashore and told them
we were going to tace them aboard our
boat to the admiral. They appeared
rather gratified than otherwise, aud
see rued to dread the Cubans far more
than the Americans.
I sent our small boat for the ship's
launch, first having landed Mr. Hem
nient and his assistant. We three stood
guard over our wretched Spaniards un
til the launch arrived. Several Span
ish bodies, upon which the vultures
fed, lay along the beach. Mr. Hem
ruent took some rather gruesome pho
tographs while I made the Spaniards
bury their dead.
Most of the prisoners were wounded
and had been in the heat of the fight.
We learned from them how the gun
nery of the Americans bad become
fiercer and deadlier, until the Spanish
crews had deserted their guns and had
been shot down by their own officers;
how, as the conditions of the battle be
came more and more desperate, the fine
wines and liquors of the officers' mess
had been handed out to the crews, so
that with drunken courage they would
fight on in the hopeless fight, and how
at last the officers themselves gave up,
and, scuttling their ships, drove them
on the shore.
Of our prisoners, 1G were from the
Vizcaya, 6 from tbe Oquendo, and 7
from the Maria Teresa, making a total
of 29. We took them aboard the Silvia
and headed for the fleet. As we passed
the Texas we signaled our capture and
received a hearty cheer from her jack
ies. Admiral Sampson, thanked us very
courteously and asked us to deliver our
prisoners on board the St, Louis. W
did so, receiving a reeeipt in due form
from tho offipcr f marines in rhartm.
I
A.
ID
1827.
JULY 13. 1898.
While aboard the St. Louis we met
Captain Eulate, of the Vizcaya, whom
I bad seen in New York some months
ago under very different conditions.
The captain expressed his grief at the
sad turn affairs bad taken, but said he
had done "his best, and could do no
more.
Admiral Cervera was also on board,
and we spoke a few words to him. The
old man is a fine, imposing figure, as
be stands yet proudly in his full uni
form, with the gold braid and several
decoration of his rank on his breast.
The full effect is somewhat marred by
the fact that his trousers are very damp
from wading ashore while escaping
from his burning and disabled ship.
But only the irreverent would take no
tice of such things.
From the fleet we went to the wreck
of the Vizcaya, and while Mr. Hem
nient takes photographs of the great
hole in her bow, I sit on a dismounted
gun and write these few notes of Mon
day's proceedings to be forwarded to
you.
Life on a Battleship
FolIowiu3 Is an extract written by a
naval reserve on board the Oregon, oil'
Santiago, to his mother iu Chicago:
"I have just as good things to eat as
I expected to have. I didn't expect to
live as I do at home, and am therefore
not one bit disappointed about any
thing. I am surprised myself at the
vast quantities of cotlee I drink a
couple of big bowlfuls at every meal.
But you can't blame me when I tell
you that all the water we have is warm.
I am glad of it, though, U cause that
means it is distilled. I would rather
have warm distilled water than cold
water not distilled, although it didn't
taste very good at first. It is drank so
soon after distilling that it doesn't have
a chance to get cool, and half the lime
it is actually so hot as to make me driuk
it slowly. I have forgotten what cold
water tastes like.
"I wash all my own clothes. In the
morning, before breakfast, water is is
sued to us. We get in line with buck
ets. This water is to wa.sh in, and
when I have some clatbes to wash I
take and hide them somewhere until
evening, ana tueu 1 gel out on tne fore
castle with ascrubbiug-brush and soap.
Every evening the forecastle is covered
with fellows down on their kne n scrub
bing clothes. Water is so scarce that
It Is passed from one fellow to nnttlier,
and the same way in the morning, and
a fellow is glad to wash himself in wa
ter third or fourth hand. When we
take a bath we just stand up and let
somebody turn a big hose ou us. That
is stilt water, though. It is only the
fre?!i water that Is hard to get.
"This is a rough life, a very rough
life, but that is the very reason I like ih
like getting away from society, aud
girls, and collars and neckties and cuffs,
tablecloths and chinaware. When I
get back it will seem all the finer."
Cervera Took Chances.
New York, July C The Herald
this morning prints the following from
ib correspondent with Sampson's
squadron:
Lieut. Juan Aruar, third officer of
the cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa, dic
tated the following statement: "We
staked all on the chance of catching
the American fleet napping and we
have lost. Oar fleet has been wiped
out and Spain's naval power is sudden
ly shattered. This is the situation
which Spain must face. The war can
not be continued with auy hope of suc
cess. e have done our itest, but we
have been overcome by a superior force.
Admiral Cervera decided last Wednes
day to leave Santiago, In obedience to
instructions received from Madrid,
which ordered him to proceed to Ha
vana in order to assist iu the defense
of that city. The fleet accordingly
coaled and provisioned and the men
ashore were recalled. We all felt it
was tempting fate to engage the Amer
ican fleet, but the admiral's orders
wereobeyed implicitly. We left the
:bor shortly after o'cl ck Sunday
morning with a full head of steam, the
Colon leading, followed by the Vizcaya
tbe Maria Teresa, the Almirante
Oijuendo and the torpedo boats Plutori
aud Furor, and a small gunboat, the
last threa standing well inshore. I
must confess the odds were greater
than we had reckoned. Our men
fought bravely, but could not stand up
under the American fire. Ten minutes
after the engagement commenced the
Maria TeKsa's guns were so hot that
they could not be handled. The situa
tion rapidly grew worse and when it
became evident that the fleet was doom
ed, we struck our colors. Speaking for
myself and my comrades, now on board
the Harvard, I desire to express our
appreciation for all the courtesies ex
tended by CapL Cot ten and bis men,
who have shown themselves to be gen
tlemen as well as fighters. We have
lost all save honor, and have nothir
but admiration for our generous fov "
Semaikable Eejcns.
Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfield,
III., makes the statement that she
caught cold, which settled on her lungs;
she was treated for a month by her
family physician, but grew worse. He
told her she was a hopeless victim of
consumption aud that no medicine
eould cure her. Her druggist suggest
ed Dr. King's New Diseoveiy for Con
sumption; she bought a bottle and to
her delight found herself benefitted
from first dose. She continued its use
and after taking six bottles, found her
self sound and well ; now does her own
housework, aud is as well as she ever
was. Pre Irial bottles of this Great
Discovery at J. N. Snyder's Drugstore,
Somerset, Pa , and O. W. Brallier's
Drug Store, ISerlin, Pa. Large bottles
50 cents and $1.00."
Dr. Jalap "I hate to speak of it, Mr.
Stikkum, but seeing that it is more than
a year since I attended you, and the bill
is still standing, I must say that you
are rather slow pay."
Sliklrum "But you must remember
it was a slow fever I had." Boston
Transcript.
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Smokeless Powder.
It has been remarked that gunpow
der is to the gun what the soul is to the
body. It gives it life and makes it of
some account. It is the means to an
end. Gunpowder drives the shot that
the man behind the gun aims at the
enemy, and enables him, if be tie as
skillful as most of the marksmen in the
United States navy are, to demolish
bis target, whether it be a bird or a msn
or a ship or a fort.
Ordinary gunpowder, the kind one
buys iu a store, isamechanical mixture
of 75 parts of saltpetre, 15 parts of
charcoal aud 10 parts of sulphur. The
properties such a mixture possesses
may be altered to any desired exteut
by changing these proportions; the
method of treatment also modifies the
charat.' 11 of the res dting powder and
the size and shape of the grain, like
wise influences the action of gun
powder. To manufacture gunpowder quanti
ties of each ingredient are thoroughly
mixed in the roper proportions, in a
machine cal lis a mixer; the composi
tion resulting from this is known as
green powder. Greeu piowdt-r must le
subjected to the incorporation process,
an extremely dangerous one, for it is in
the incorporating room that nearly all
powder mill explosions occur.
The gieen powder is put into a tub,
where heavy runners of three or four
tons weight grind it into a homogene
ous mixture. After incorporation the
"mill cake," as it is called, is crushed
between gun metal rollers, then it is
subjected to different treatment, ac
cordiug to the kind of po-vder to be
produced, whether grain, pebble or pris
matic. Grauulated ptowder is the or
dinary grain gunpwwderof commerce.
Pebble powder, or giant powder or
blasting powder for all three are
practically the same is quite like
grain powder, except that each grain
is of the average size of a pebble.
Prismatic powder is the kind u-d in
our service to drive shot home, there
fore a short description of it may not
be uninteresting.
The powder charges for guns of the
United States navy are made up of hex
agonal prisms of brown gunpowder.
Brown gunpowder coutains usually
about S2 parts of nitre, three piarts of
sulphur and 15 parts of unburned char
coal, which accounts for the chocolate
color of the pxiwder. Prismatic pow
der prnsses through the same pnxt-s as
other powders, only the grains are
pressed into prisms by hydraulic ma
chinery instead of being separated and
glazed. The prisms thus formed are
one inch high and three-quarters of an
inch on the sides; there is a round lu'le
half an inch in diameter, through the
middle of each hexagon.
Powder charges for all our guns not
using fixed ammunition with metallic
cartridges are put up in woolen serge
cartridge bags, the prisms forming the
charge being carefully piled up iu lay
ers of the diameter of the chamber of
the gun, one on top of the other, so
that the holes in the piles will be coin-
cnient. isrown pirismatie jiowder ig
nites slowly; it is therefore, necessary
to put into each cartridge a prism or
two of quick burning black powder in
the center of the bottom layer, next to
the breech plug. By this means the
flame is quickly distributed through
the entire charge. Each full charge iu
its bag is kept in a copper cylinder
with removable heads. The cylinder
is passed from the magazine of the ship
up to the gun, where the ends are re
moved and the charge jiushed into the
gun chamber. All tbe powder charges
iu service on board our ships are brown
prismatic, though smokeless powder is
being tried, with a view to its adop
tion. mokeless powder is so called liecause
when exploded it p.nnluces no smoke.
As a matter of fact, however, a light,
thin transparent vapor is usually seen,
but it quickly disappears. Smokeless
powders, from the nature of the in
gredients employed in making them,
leave no residue wbeu exploded, the
piroductsof the combustion being gas
eous, whereas iu ordinary gunpowders,
whether black or brown, the products
are partly gaseous and partly solid, the
solid darts being visible in the deposit
left in the bore of the gun, in the bits
of fire blown out of the mu..ie at the
time of discharge and in the thick,
heavy smoke that hangs about, otiscur
ing the view.
The composition of the smokeless
lowder u.-h! iu our navy is not known
except that guueotton is the principal
ingredieut; in all powders of this class
some high explosive like guncotton,
nitroglycerin, the picrates or a combi
nation of those is employed as a bas
The smokeless powder made at New
port for our navy is a hard, lustrele
substance of a light yellowish uol
It is put up in the form of sticks rexe ta
bling vermicelli insizeandappearariee;
that for the larire caliber iruns loot-
like macaroni, having a cylindrical
hole through the stick. The largest
size stick is about three-eighths inch iu
diameter with a hole throujru it about
one sixth inch in diameter.
Smokeless powder, is extensively used
abroad, nearly every foreign country
having some powder peculiar to itself.
The one with which we are most fa
miliar is the English cordite. The guns
recently purchased from the Armstrong
firm, in England, and mxinted on
board the New Orleans use cordite in
their cartridges.
It is but a question of time when in
our navy brown gunpowder will be su
perseded by smokeless gunpowder.
N. Y. Herald.
"Spain has no chance to win in this
fight," said Mr. Mandwster to Mr.
Nortbside.
"Of course not," replied Mr. North
side. "A nation of mandolin players
has no business to contend with a na
tion of machinists." Pittsburg Chron
icle Telegraph.
"I owe my whole life to Burdock
Bitters. Scrofulous sores covered my
body. I seenied beyond cure. B. B.
B. has made me a perfectly well wo
man." Mrs. Charles Hutton, Berville,
Mich.
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WHOLE NO. 2450.
Soma Bible Chronology.
The flood occurred B. C. 23-W.
Josepdi was sold into Egypt about
17211 B. C.
Moses in 1401 B. C. led the ebildreu
of Israel out of their Inindjige to the
Kgyptiaus.
Saul was the Jew ish kimr. He was
made kiug B. C. 10! 5, being formally
set apart by Samuel the prophet.
David succeeded Saul ou the throne
about the year 105tS B. C. He reigned
41 years, when he was followed by his
sou Solomon.
Elijah made his startling appearance
before the wicked kiug Ahab B. C. 910,
Isaiah prophesied about a century and
a half later.
Mahtchi, the last of the Old Testa
ment pirophets, prophesied about the
year 3'J7 B. C It was about this time
that the great reformer Nehemiah re
built the walls of Jerusalem.
The Jewish captivity in Babylonia
l-eiran 15. C. 53.!. ThisLsted until 53o'
wnen Cyrus, king of Persia, for politi
cal reasons liU-rated the Jews, sent
them back home, and helped them re
build their capital Jerusalem.
Christ was born, a.wrding to a cjri
ous blunder of the early makers of cal
endars, B. C. 4, or as it is put in muny
of our Bibles, in the year of the world
(A.M.) 4,000. Trv; crucifixion was 3o
years later or A. D. 2l. September 7,
A. D. 70 Jerusalem lay a heap of ruins
at the feet cf her Roman conquerors
after after a bitter aud protracted siege.
Making: Money.
"In war time," said a mau of ma
ture years, "there are always unusual
chances that are taken advantage of by
linen of foresight to make money. This
reminds me of what Josh Hillings said,
tiiMt 'it our foresight was as good as our
hindsight we'd all be rich,' or words to
that effect.
"At the outbreak of the civil war in
this country there were loutr-headed
men who stored swuy manufactured
cotton goods, bleached and unbleachl
oittons, sheetings and so on. As the
w ar went on, what with the curtailment
production and the blockade of
routhern ports, the price of cotton soar
ed -ky ward, and manufactured cotton
jamais increased in value correspiouding
iy. M.ist men eddled out their hold
ings as the price ruee, but some held on
and got for their goods six or eight or
ten times what they paid for them.
"There has been no such money as
that made in tiiis war as yet, and I
ii't suppose there's likely to le, but
it would lieea.-y to pick out things that
liave riien jrreally iu alue and that a
man n ight e.ti!y have made a fortune
n, if he'd known what was going to
happen. Supiose he'd have bought
nil the bunting there was, for instance,
r taken a fall out of sulphur, or put
away a few hundred eases of Spanish
olives. He'd have found money iu all
liese thingsaud iu various others. But
'hen a mau can, find money in time
of peace, loo, if he knows how to
look."
Eobbsd the Grave.
A startling incident, of which Mr.
JaJin Oliver of Philadelphia, was the
Hul'ject, is narrated by him as follows:
"3 was in a most dreadful condition.
.Vyskiu was almost yellow, eyes sunk
en, sjngue coated, paiu continually in
back stud sides, no appetite gradually
growing weaker day by day. Three
physicians had given me up. Fortu
nately, a friend advised trying -Elec-trie
Bitierv;' and to my great joy and
Mirprise, the first bottle made ; decid
ed unprovnuieii:. I continued their
ue for CwMe -et-ks, and am now a well
nan. I ku" they saved my life, and
robbed the grave of another victim."
No one should fail to try them. Only
-i0 cts. per bottle at J. N. Snyder's Drug
tore, Somerset, Pa., and ti. W. Bral
lier's Drug Store, Berlin, Pa.
Tha Dazziirj Searchlight.
Searchlights, which play an impor
Ns.it part iu modern warfare, have one
vs which the average landsman would
.11st think of mentioning, if he were
i led upon to enumerate their various
.-iiiiilWtions, says the New York Trib-iiia.-.
While the searchlight's first
uui chief mission is to throw shtfts of
llgat and to il'umiuate dark places, to
.id in the discovery of prowling ships,
torfsedo boats aud blockade runners, it
is use.d extensively also as a means of
communication by siguals. Rut in a
night engagement it is used tlso to daz
zle the-yes of the gunners ou the op
lsing side. Bad markmausship on
the piart of the Spaniards lias often
lier-n given as the cause for their iuef-i-'cXsi
shooting, while the real cause
Iial?n the good work of those who
.perat.-d the searchlights on the Amer
ican ships. Those who have been
compelled to face them say that there
are few more potent blinders than the
electric searchjight.
Severely Punished.
In VM, at City Point, Va., while the
gt neral of the army was strolling along
in e wharf one day, he saw a big, raw
be ued teamster tielaboriug one of bis
w-i teel males witu a billet of wood, and
cu rsiug hioi roundly. Graut said qaiet
ly : "M y man, stop beating that mule."
llm wuy, Jo iking around at the little.
uu jsteutatious appearing person iu a
via in blouse, replied : "Say, be you
dri ving t'lese here mules, or be I?" and
era ck again went the cudgel, the mule
d Igiug and jumping the tongue.
V .'ell," said the general, "I think I
his-.esufliciealauihotity here to stop
yx ir cruelty to that aaimal;" and
tur oing to tbe AttWr in charge of the
Ira in he ordered bins to have the team
sie r "tied u;" for 24 hours when he re
imi ned t cs.mp, and report the fact to
h idiiuar.ers when done. The news
p: -ead rapidly from camp to camp, and
Us ere was much leas mule mauling ar
tel that.
. D ostless roads are made possible by a
no w materl d. composed of flue earthy
or mineral matter charg id with heavy
oil . plai-ed o. 1 the leveled bed of ordi
nal "y roads.
I CESVESA OBEYED 0B.DEBS.
Madrid Forced Him to Dash Oat to
Destruction.
Kingston, Jamaica, July 2. I have
just had an interview with Admiral
Cervera, who received me very court
eously. He said: "I do not wish to
make a statement at present, although
1 am divply sensible of the generous
treatment accorded to myself and to my
aieu by the American sailors, from th
rear admiral down to the officers of his
fleet. I received orders twice, from
Madrid to leave Santiago harbor and
go to Havana, and fully realized the
difficulties that beset my path, but the
honor of the Spanish navy demanded
that tbe movement be made, and I gave
the order for my fleet to dash forth to
almost certain destruction.
Lieut. Juan Aruar, third officer of
the cruiser Ir fanta Maria Teresa, dicta
ted the fol owing statement : "We
staked all on the chance of catching
the American fleet napping and we
have lost. Our fleet has been wii-ed
out aud Spain's naval power is sud
denly shattered. This is the situation
which Spain must face. The war can
not be continued with any hojie of suc
cess. We have done our best, but we
have been overcome by a superior force.
Admiral Cervera decided last Wednes
day to leave SaGtiago, Iu obedience to
instructions received from Madrid,
which ordered him to proceed to Ha
vana in order to assist iu the defense of
that city. The fleet accordingly coaled
and provisioned and the men ashore
were recalled."
"Weallfeltlt was tempting fate to
engage the Americau fleet, but the
admiral's orders were obeyed implicit
and after many plans hail been discuss-
' ed and abandoned. We left the harbor
shortly after 'J o'clock Sunday morning
with a full head of steam, the Colon
leading, followed by the VU-aya, the
Maria Teresa, the Almirante Oquendo
and the torpedo boats Pluton anil Furor,
and a small gunboat, :he last three
standing well in shore. I must confess
the odds were greater than we had
reckoned. Our men fought bravely
but could not stand up under the
American Cre. Teu minutes after the
engagement commenced the Maria
Teresa's guns were so hot that they
could not be handled. The situation
rapidly grew worse aud when it became
evident that the fleet was doomed, we
struck our colors. Speaking for my
self aud my comrades, now on board
the Harvard, I desire to express our ap
preciation for all the courtesies extend
ed by Capl. Cot tou and his men, who
have shown themselves to be gentle
men as well as fighters. We have lout
all save honor, and have nothing but
admiratiou for our generous foe."
The officer added that Cervera's chief
of staff, Senor Bustameute, inventor of
the torpedo bearing that name, was
badly wouuded in the fight at San Juan.
Seuor Bustaaieute's torpedoes are now
used in all Cubau harbors. Lieut.
Aruar estimates the Spanish loss around
Sautiago Friday and Saturday at 2,000
killed and wounded. Admiral Samp
sou has permitted Admiral Cervera to
commuuicate with the Madrid govern
ment. It is reported that Cervera ad
vised that the war be terminated, stat
ing that the American strength has
been underestimated from the first,
and that Spanish honor is now satis
fied. A Woman's stomach.
"The longer I live," said the house
jthysician of one of the big hotels, "the
more I wonder at and admire the female
stomach. That abused organ, cabined,
cribbed and confined in a corset two
sizes too small, can stand more hard
knocks than any pugilist that ever
stepped into the riug. The average
woman at a hotel has the choice of u
world of things to eat, and does not
know iu the least what to eat. Here
is a list of the things that were stowed
away at my table the other day by a
spirituelle ereature weighing not more
than hH pounds aud measuring 17
inches about the middle: Snip, ti. h
with rice sauce, olives, sliced cucum
bers, sweetbreads, turkey with chest
nut dressing-, grouse, asparagus, new
potatoes, cauliflower with cheese, two
helpings of lobster, Newburjr, lemon
pudding, lee cream, cakes, Rjquefort
cheese and coflee. The liquid- were a
glass of white win- and a quart bottle
of bier, which she shared with her
father. No, I was not called in to at
tend her. That is her usual perform
ance. I weigh :5 jounds and take a
great deal of exercise. My dinner con
sisted of a light soup, stale bread, a
liberal portion of beef, some peas, as
paragus, cheese and coffee. That was
pdenty, if not too much. And women
will drink sherry, milk punches, cock
tails and other heavy concoctions and
jcrh:ps feel the effects of them too
But they get over it quickly."
TJr-cle Sara's Heady-Made Clothes.
People who have wondered how and
where the soldiers get their uniforms
and shoes, and have made inquiry ou
the subject, discovered that Uncle Sam
does considerable business in the ready
made clothing line. His customers
have no choice as to the cut or style of
the garments uor as to the quality or
color of the material. These are mut
ters which the great tailor settles in
keeping with orders from the war de
partment. "But how about the fitting of the
garments?" the man in search of in
formation ask. "When a man wauts
a suit of clothes he goes to the tailor
and has his measure taken, and the
garments are made for him. Now, the
soldier can't do that. How do they
manage'."'
"Simply buy ready made."
The government has large clothiug
stores in Brooklyn and in Philadelphia.
The former supplies the navy, and un
less the demanils are too heavy the
army supply comes from the other
shop. These two manufacturing points
are to the various quartermasters what
the big clothing factories are to the re
tail shops. The garments are made in
the various sizes that are most iu de
mand, and are forwarded to army posts
or other army stations on regular re
quisitions. There the uniforms are
given out on requisitions from com
manding officers, and record is kept
of the final disposition of each gar
ment. The statistics as to measurments give
the cutter a good idea of what is re
quired, and the stocks are usually so
arranged that no customer need go to
tbe opposition house. The men who
have the matter in charge are anxious
to "fit"' their subjects, but it is proba
ble that no long talks as to the qual
ity of the stock and the neatness of
the fit are delivered in the place where
the uniforms are issued.
In a new Paris bicycle the front forks,
instead of telng connected to a single
tube in the bead, have three or more
tubes fitted together, each one connect
ed oa a flat steel crown.
This receipt I have fom arded.
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