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WARSHIPS PLAYING THEIR SEARCH-LIGHTS.
The December day set for
starting of the ‘‘Practice Cruise to |
the Pacific” will doubtless go down
in history as one of the red letter
days of the American Navy, for the
departure of the Atlantic fleet from
Hampton Roads on its 13,000-mile
journey inaugurates the most mo-
mentous undertaking of its kind that
the world has ever seen. Perhaps
the nearest approach to it was Ro-
jestvensky's ill - starred journey
around the Cape of Good Hope, but in
strength and numbers his fleet can
in no way be compared to the mighty
armament which Rear - Admiral
Evans’ flagship, the Connecticut, is
to lead through the winding channels.
on their way around to the Pacific.
of the’ Magellan
the jthat army; possessing also the ability
to go farther in any given length of
time, and be self-supporting for a
greater length of time, and possess-
ing in her armor a protection, may
be said to double her offensive
strength.
The author of this paper does not
mean to imply that a battle-ship
could do on land what 100,000 in-
fantry could do, but that cn its ele-
ment, the se.., the argument is that
a battle-ship is a more powerful thing
than an army of 100,000 infantry is
on its element, the land. And that,
furthermore, 100,000 men cannot
march 240 miles a day, whereas a
battle-ship can ‘go 240 miles a day
with ease.
Strait.
Although the trans-
fer of the fleet from
ocean to ocean has
been discussed as no
movement of a fleet
tias ever been dis-
cussed before, it is
probable that few yet
reglize just i all it
means. The state-
ment that it is equiva-
lent to the transfer
from the Atlantic to
the Pacific seaboard
of a highly disciplined
army of nearly 2;
000,000 men may
seem . extravagant,
but, in a sense, i
no less true. In a
recent essay read be-
fore the Naval Insti-
tute, Captain Bradley
A. Fiske drew an
analogy between bhat-
tle-ships and armies,
and in which ‘the
author asserted that
a battle-ship is a
much more powerful
thing than an army
of 100,000 men. “On
land,” this author
said, “an army of
100,000 infantry car-
rics 100,000 rifles. If
those 100,000 rifles
were all fired simul-
taneously, the com-
bined energy of tho
bullets at the muzzle
would be equal to only seven per cent.
more than the energy of two twelve-
inch guns in one battle-ship. And if
the total energy of those 100,000
men could be concentrated, it
would not be more than 25,000
horse-power, about fifty per cent.
more than the horse-power of the
Maine. The 100,000 men would
weigh about 7200 tons, about half
the weight of one large battle-ship.”
But, as Captain Fiske adds, the
fire of 100,000 men cannot be con-
centrated, neither can their energy
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REAR-ADMIRAL EVANS.
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Commanding the Battle-ship Fleet.
Not including the six destroyers
which are to accompany the fleet,
and leaving out of count the supply
and repair ships which form a part
of this vast armada, the total battle-
ship tonnage which is to make the
voyage from ocean to ocean is 223,-
836 tons. There .are about 13,000
men attached to the fleet and its
auxiliaries, and- it will require more
than 6,000,000 pounds of ,rovisions
to supply their needs throughout the
three or four months which will be
required for the long voyage. These
AX ELIE
NAVAL BASE AT MAGDALENA BAY, OBJECTIVE POINT OF CRUISE
nor their weizht. So it would seem
that the battle-ship is a machine of a
higher order, possessing, in her gun-
fire, a greater amount of concen-
trable energy, in her engines an
energy more than half as great as
that of all the nien and horses in
U. S. Army Transport Service Flag.
The section at the left is red, .the
section at the right blue, and the
centre section white, with the letters
in red and the insignia in blue.
supplies include 1,200,000 pounds
flour, 1,000,000 pounds fresh beef
o(frozen), 800,000
000 pounds of vegetables, the list in-
cluding turnips, cabbages, carrots,
onions and asparagus, 200,000
pounds tinned corn, 200,000 pounds
tinned pease, 150,000 pounds tinned
tomatoes, 150,000 pounds salt pork,
110,000 pounds oatmeal, 100,000
pounds each of rice, lard, mutton and
corned beef, 500,000 pounds of
canned fruits, including apples,
peaches, pears and other fruits; 100,-
000 pounds of condensed milk, 100,-
000 pounds of coffee, 15,000 pounds
of tea, 40,000 dozen fresh eggs,
5000 pounds of mustard, 5000
pounds of pepper and 5000 pounds
of salt. .
Nearly everything that a person
can think of to eat or drink, except
intoxicants, is included in the lists of
supplies. In making out the lists the
Navy Department officials took into
consideration the fact that the ships
Arkansas Diamond Fields as
Rich as South Africa.
Little Rock, Ark.—Thc diamond
field discovered in Pike County, this
State, is rich, according to the report
of Professor Philip Schneider, geolo-
gist of the Syracuse (N. Y.) Univer-
sity, who was employed by the State
Department of Agriculture to make
an investigation.
In his report he says that, while
much of the land which he inspected
is worthless, a few acres are rich pro-
ducers of genuine diamonds, equaling
the Kimberley mines.
Prof. Wm. James Finds a ‘Psychic
Marvel” in New Hampshire.
Boston, Mass.—Professor William
examined the strange case of Mrs.
Nellie M. Titus, of Lebanon, N. H.,
and has discovered in her, he says,
a ‘‘psychic marvel.” He gives three
explanations of her power and ex-
presses the opinion that she has a
super-normal faculty of seership.
Mrs, Titus in a trance located the
body of Bertha Huz, of Enfield, who
was drowned off Old Shaker Bridge
nine years ago.
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Year's and Washington's birthday,
and special dinners for those occa-
sions have already been arranged, as
is shown, by the large number
turkeys, plum puddings, pumpkin
will be at
pies, nuts, dried fruits and other deli- |
cacies named in the lists of foods re-
quired.
izes how long
monotonous the
times,
going
and, at
voyage is
as the food was concerned the
would not have any excuse
grumble.
The officers of the fleet must lay
in, their own supply of provisions at
their own expense. They may choose
what they wish without reference
to the provisions which the Bureau
men
to
of Supplies and Accounts makes for,
enlisted men. All of the food pro-
vided will be kept fresh by means of
cold storage. Water will be distilled
aboard ship. At the ports new sup-
plies can be taken aboard, but the
orders of the Navy Department are
that the ships be provided without
reference to any stops they may make
The projected cruise has already
involved the purchase of nearly a
quarter of a million tons of coal, and
the charter of a fleet of colliers
which is numerically greater than
the battle-ship fleet itself. The mil-
lions of dollars which the coal and
the colliers cost can only be approxi-
mated, but they are many.
he cruise itself
one of absorbing interest, not only
to this country and to the nations
which will follow its movements as it
its way down the great dip
sea hill which sweeps from the
to. the Horn and up the Ilati-
tudes to the Line again, but it prom-
be eminently spectacular to
of those whose fortunes will
cast with the Armada.
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The Navy Department real- |
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be, and it was determined that so far |
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THE
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FIGHTING STRENGTH
THE BATTLESHIP
FLEET.
Officers
Ships. Gur and Men
Connecticut 2 881
Kansas 2 S50
Louisiana S81
Vermont, SS1
Virginia
Georgia
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Alabama
Illinois
Kearsage
Kentucky
Ohio
Maine
Minnesota S81
Missouri z TS
S.
690
690
686
800
813
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I'sioned. In addition to these are the
{ four protected cruisers of the Den-
ver class; the cruisers Chicago, Al-
bany and the gunboat Yorktown. The
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Map Showing Magdalena Bay,
The Coaling Station Leased by Mex-
ico to the United States.
combined fleets will therefore have
the following strength:
Battle-ships ....
Armored cruisers
Protected cruisers
Gunboats
Destroyers
Botal =. dsas eis
This immense armament, by
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THE BATTLE-SHIP MISSOURI.
"Twould, perhaps, be “worth ten
years of peaceful life, one glance at
that array,” as, under the eyes of the
President, it moves out from Hamp-
ton Roads—sixteen superb battle-
ships, with their attendant cortege
of supply, hospital and repair ships.
The first stop will be at Trinidad,
where the fleet will renew its coal
supply from the fleet of colliers
which will be awaiting its arrival
there. Then it will proceed to Rio,
where another supply of coal will be
taken on board from another fleet of
waiting colliers; and then begins the
long run to Punta Arenas—one of
the most dreary regions in the world,
the jumping-off place-—sinister as the
Pit itself. Coaling again from col-
liers, the fleet will resume its way,
taking passage through the Strait of
Magellan. It is expected to arrive
at Callao, its next stopping place, on
February 18, and at Magdalena Bay
on April 6. Here it will effect a
junction with the vessels of the Pa-
cific fleet. This is expected to com-
prise the six new and powerful ar-
mored cruisers of the South Dakota
class; the Tennessee and Washington,
of a later and even more powerful
pounds potatoes, !
300,000 pounds smoked ham, 1,000,-|
! Alabama class,
James, the Harvard psycholokist, has |
type; the three big protected cruis-
ers, St. Louis, Milwaukee and Chi-
cago; the battle-ship Oregon, that
famous old dog of Santiago; the bat-
tle-ship Wisconsin, which is of the
and the new battle-
| the greatest ever assembled by any
| nation, will be under the command
of Rear-Admiral Evans. The incon-
gruity o« having so vast a force under
the command of an officer with no
| higher rank than that of Rear-Admi-
| ral is recognized most everywhere,
| except in Congress. ‘The creation
lof the rank of Vice-Admiral and the
{ bestowing of it upon ‘Fighting
| Bob” would, of course, not increase
| the competence of that distinguished
| officer; but the rank would be a more
| fitting one for the commander-in-
| chief of this mighty fleet.
| Upon the junction of the fleets
in Magdalena Bay, the present pro-
gram contemplates a series of ex-
tensive maneuvres between the com-
bined forces, and target practice, in-
cluding the firing of the guns when
the ships are in a rough sea, and
record practice when they are in
smooth water. The vast armament
will be divided into two fleets, and
the fleets sub-divided into squad-
rons and divisions.
This story of the projected cruise
of the fleet may well leave it in
Magdalena Bay, for no prophet may
tell where it wili go from there. Some
official utterances have laid its
course north to San Francisco; where-
as some others, unofficial, have plot-
ited its track to the Philippines and
thence around the world via the Suez
Canal and home.
THE ARMORED CRUISER TENNESSEE.
Trolley Car Searchlights Hyp-
notize Delaware Rabbits.
Wilmington, Del.—Rabbits are en-
spared by trolley cars in Delaware.
e capture of many animals would
be easy for the crews of the West
Chester, Kennett and Wilmington
Eleetric Railway.
The cars ar= equipped with power-
ful electric searchlights, and when
the intense raya appear, at night,
rabbits make fer the light. As the
rays strike them, they perform all
sorts of gyrations, and when hit in
the eves are completely hypnotized.
Professors Calls Fraternity
Houses Devil's instruments.
Chicago. — Charles W. French
branded high school fraternity houses
as ‘‘instruments of the devil” and
a ‘plague spot,” and the fraternities
as being surrounded by a score or
more of degenerating influences.
“Who that has seen the chapter-
house open day and night, with its
tobacco and profanity and too often
orgies lasting into the small hours,
can fail to see a vicious
which tends to ruin those who parti=-
cipate,” he said.
SABBATH SCHOOL LESSONS
INTERNATIONAL LESSON ‘COM.
MENTS FOR DEC. 22 BY THE
REV. I. W. HENDERSON.
Subject: Samuel, the Upright Judae,
I. Sam. 7:1-13—Golden Text, 1.
Sam. T:3—Memory Verses, 12,
13—NRead I. Sam. 3-7.
It must have been with feelings
very different from thoze of their last
encounter, when the ark of God wn
carried into the battle, that the host
of Isracl now faced the
army near Mizpeh.
only the symbol
Then they had
of God's gracious
wicked Hopani and Phinehas; now
their guide was holy Samuel, savs
Dr. Blaikie. Then they had rushed
into the fight in thoughtless uncon. |
{ chiefiy by solliing souvenirs.
{ fnside a
blood of sprinkling they had obtained | Shown
Then they
presump- | in
cern about their sins: now they had
confessed © them, and through the
a sense of forgiveness.
were puffed up by a vain
tion; now thev were animated by a
calm but confident hone. :
advance was hallowed bv no prayer
now the cry of meedv children ‘bad
gone up from God's faithful servant.
In fact, the battle with the
tines had already heen fought by
Samuel on his knees. There can be
no more sure tcken of success than
this. ‘Are we engaged in conflict
with our own besetting sins? Or
are we contending acainst scanda-
lous transgression in the world
around us? Jet us first fight the
battle on our knees. If we
of victory in the other battle.
It was as Samuel was offering up
the burnt-offering that the Philistines
drew near to battle against Israel.
There was an unseen ladder that dav
between earth and heaven, on which
the angels of God ascended and de- |
secended as in Jacob's vision at
Bethel. The smoke of the burnt-
offering carried un to God the con-
fession and contrition of the people, |
of |
their reliance on @od’s method
atonement, and their prayer for His
pardon and His blessing. The great
thunder with which God thundered | %
on the Philistines carried down from ake ti
God the answer and the needed help, | Bift.”
There is no need for supposing that | See t
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the thunder was
was supernatural.
of what is
supernatural. It
SO common, a natural
EPWORTH
{ bread,”
‘ing
Philistine | 7
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presence, now they had the reality. | >
Then their spiritual gnides were the |
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Then their |
tito €
Philis- |
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1 are vie- |
torious there we need have little fear |
custom is fathered
meaning,
to this fact.
giving and receiving of gifts, let
It
the
It was an instance |
LEAGUE LESSONS:
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22.
rth of the King. (Matt. 2:
Christmas.
Passage f
T, Matt, © Jt:
Tim.-2» 4: } John
Bethlehem moans
called from
fields. Near
gleaned, Jacob buried
David fought wild beasts, for it was
his birthplace. In the fourth century
selected. this: little town in
to translate the Scriptures in-
Latin, the Vulgate version, ae-
cepted as the standard of the Roman
Catholic Church. It is five
and six miles south of Jerusalem, and
four. thou-
theie living
A cave
ground is
birthplace of = Jesus.
stands a ~2hurch built
Saint Helena, the mo-
first Christian IImperor
It is the oldest monument
] in world.
Heathen festivais formerly
brated the period now observed by
iristians as Christmas. Onr Christ-
tree and other. customs were
from them. A few authorities
have tried to prove that Jesus was
not. born :on December 25. Prof. An-
drews in his careful and logical way
establishes the fact. that we ob-
serving right date. American
holidays, such as the Fourth of July
and Thanksgiving Day, have become
so popular that foreigners in many
Minds now observe them. The Jews.
infidels and pconle seemingly uncon-
cerned. about Christ diligently ob-
serve Christmas. Among all classes
of people the-day is now unotiead by
tha giving: of love tokens. But: this
by and rooted in
the birth of the King, Jesus. The
day cannot have full, rich, large
unless it is related to his
We need to recall our minds
In the jubilation, in the
us
“great
for »
“House
its surronnd-
here Ruth
Rachel, and
SO
wheat
Terome
which
hetween
sand people, who make
large
the
the cave
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ther the
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the
cele-
are
tie
birth.
me to meditate on the
Ponder the love back of it.
e resources which it opens.
e privileze of being his Triend
1 good time fo remind others of
influence of Christ. How the
h
Feel th
is
force adapted to the purpose of an | world does its homage by celebrating
answer to prayer.
have occurred is this:
thunderstorm had gathered mile
to the east, and now broke, probably
with violent wind, in the faces of the
Philistines, who were advancing up
the heights against Mizpeh.
to face such a terrific war of the
elements, the Philistines would turn
round, placing their backs to the
storm. The men of Israel, but little
embarrassed by it, since it came from
behind them, and gave the gre:
momeninum to their force, rushed on
the embarrassed enemy, and drove
them before them like smoke before
the wind.
“Hitherto hath the Lord helped
us.” The characteristic feature of
the inscription lies in the word
“hitherto.” It was no doubt a tes-
What seems to
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CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES
DECEMBER : TWENTY-SECOND
Aagnificat: a Christmas song.
Luke 1: 46-55.
SONS.
The angel's
Zachariah's
Simeon's «
When
timonyv to special help obtained in| fied,
that time of trouble; it was a grate-|
ful recognition of that help; and it
was an enduring monument to per- |
petnate the memory of it. But it!
was mdre, much more. The word
“hitherto” denotes a series, a chain
of similar mercies, an unbroken suc-
cession of Divine interpositions and
denes is magnit
Lord.
The
blessed
y
the
Christ-filled onl;
itself, bhnt
end of time
None of earth's humblest ones has
heen more lowly than our Lord, and
ncne of earth’s proud ones has heen
life
it
not
blesses
is
others,
to
influence |
Divine deliverances. The special pur- |
pose of this inscription was to link!
on the present deliverance to all the
past, and to form a testimony to the |
a covenant-keeping God. But was|
there not something strange in this
inscription, considering the circum- | Christ's birth—by
Could Samuel have forgot and the.angels.
stances?
more highly
righteousness
enduring faithfulness and mercy of | those that think
fille must be
exalted.
1t- is -only those that. hunger for
that can be filled:
themselves already
sent away empty.
Note how many songs, accompanied
Mary, Zacharias,
Christmas carols all
that tragic day at Shiloh? Had Sam- | down the ages.
uel forgot how the victorious Philis- |
tines soon after dashed upon Shiloh | quotations.
like beasts of prey, plundering, de- heart,
stroying, massacring, till nothing
more remained to be done to justify! and exaltation,
the name of “Ichabod?”
All that Samuel has considered |
well. Even amid the desolations of
Shiloh the Lord was helping them.
He was helping them to know them- |
selves, helping them to know their!
sins, and helping: them to know the
bitter fruit and woeful punishment |
of sin. He wa helping them to
achieve the great end for which He
had called them—to keep alive the
knowledge of the true God and the |
practice of His worship, onward to| Well as
the time when the great promise
should be realized—when He should | image, it is that i. od it
. “ve he “ne aoni g
come in whom all the families of the | When one magnifies God,
Samuel's | that sees that is enlarged.
sarth were to be blessed.
idea of what constituted the nation’s
glory was large and spiritual. The
true glory of the nation was to fulfil |
the function for which God had
taken it into covenant with Himself. |
Whatever helped them to do this was |
a blessing, was a token of the Lord’s |
remembrance of them. The links |
>t the long chain denoted by Sam- |
ael’s “‘hitherto’”” were not all of one |
zind. Some were in the form of mer-
ries, many were in the form of chas-
tenings. For the higher the func-
more need was there of chastening.
I'he higher the destination of a sil-
yer vessel, the greater is the need
‘hat the silver be pure, and therefore
hat it be frequently passed through
he furnace. The destination of Is-
‘ael does not merely give thanks for | stiffen it.
seasons of prosperity, but for checks
ind chastenings too.
Graduates at the College of Agri-
culture at the University of Wiscon-
sin this year have received appoint-
ments fvhich ~ will scatter = them.
through five states of the Union.
One-half of the class are engaged in
practical agricultural work, special
izing in dairying, breeding and horti-
culture, while four others are filling
college positions.
gen
One hundred and forty million dol-
lars will have to be raised by taxa-
tion to pay the expenses of New
York next year, according to the estl-
mates made by the heads of the vari-
ous departments of the city govern-
ment. This is an increase cf forty
million dollars in less than ten years.
vibrations
The
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somewhere,
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The Magnificat is made up of Bibl»
The more Bible in your
the more song in your life.
Magnificat is full of humility
and therefore is a
‘The
| prophecy of Christendom.
God cannot bring blessings to any
unless they are ready to praise Him
for
them. 3
is a musical
the air.
and the
singing
It physical fact that
never die out of
Bethlehem song
are still
actual
Magnificat
The voice is most easily trained In
| vouth—to sing the Christian song as
carols.
magnifies a
that
other .
one physical
enlarged;
is the one
When
is
A DELICIOUS JELLY.
Fruit dessert that is certain to meet
with a gratifving reception is a coid
fruit jelly, the recipe for which was
brought from South America by Chan-
ning Pollock, the playwright. Not
only is it a delicious dainty for a
hot-day dinner, but can be prepared
so easily that no housewife need hesi-
tate to undertake to make it. In
fact, all she will have to do will be
to take the pure juice of some tasty
fruit, like the orange, pineapple, or
lemen, with a little sugar to sweeten
it. and ‘when it has attainad the boil:
ing point, add enough gelatine to
The only water put into
the mixture, however, is that which
is used. in dissolving the gelatine.
The mixture is then poured into a
mold, which is put upon the ice to
harden, when it may be served with
or without a garnishment of whipped
cream. —From “In Days Like These,”
by Miles Bradford in The Bohemian.
MARSHMALLOW FROSTING.
Boil three-fourths a cup of granu-
lated sugar and one-fourth a cup of
milk until the syrup threads. Do not
stir after boiling begins. Cook and
stir one-fourth a pound of marshmal-
lows and two tablespoonfuls of water
over boiling water until the mixture
is smooth. Combine the two mix»
ures, and beat until stiff enough to
spread. Flavor with half a teaspoon-
ful of vanilla extract.—Boston Cock-
ing School Magazine,