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f v* * v™" f ^ % m-! .* i - ^ m MMM " wm&:̂ * V s ? J^ / X ^ r\; / : rr -. : . " 'S mm VI S&S ^38®: KwawK &r<?.<£. âzrcnr •h J f - v , / l i f e V ; i * * J t MV '•• '.&£ V- % **.r% ^5 ' " '~ '%.* j t.f**j". iOW much am I offered for tills line steel cruiser Detroit--built In 1880, cost me $1,233,03!), al­ most as good as new, only a bit shop-worn, and I'm sacrificing my old nav»l stock so as to make room tor a couple of 30,- 000 ton battleships I've just asked congress for. How much for the Detroit? Do I hear $50,000? Well, 525,000, then. No? Why, gentlemen. you couldn't buy a tug boat at that figure, f20,000? Twenty I am Offered. Is that all? Going, go­ ing--gone at |20,000!" The auctioneer was Uncle Sam, and the occa­ sion was one of his little naval rummage sales, held at the navy >ard last January. Uncle Sam has from J140.000.000 to $150,000,000 worth of battleships, cruisers, monitors, gun boats and other miscellaneous ex-fighting craft piled up In his rimval junk-shop. That is to stfy, the discards, obsolete or obsolescent types, crip­ ples, back numbers and total wrecks at present on his hands coBt him the tidy sum indicated for construction alone, not counting guns and equip­ ment. These latter represent a more or less per­ ishable value. too, but that's another story. It was doubtless owing to I'ncle Sara's reputa­ tion for unsentimentality in regard to superannu­ ated war vessels that general credence was given to a recent rumor that Turkey proposed to pur­ chase from the United States the four armored cruisers Olympic, Saratoga, Brooklyn and Kaleigh. This rumor was promptly denied from Washing­ ton. Uncle Saru has no authority in law to dis­ pose of nava^ vessels to any foreign government Otherwise the idea was not so very far removed from possibility. Three of the four cruisers named are at navy yards, or the Naval Academy, the fourth one, the New York (or the Saratoga, as she Is called now), being with the Asiatic squadron. The vessels are all of obsolete type, but each has contributed to naval history. The Saratoga was Rear Admiral Sampson's flagship at Santiago, the Brooklyn was Rear Admiral Schley's flagship in the same bat- tto, the Olvmpia was Admiral Dewey's flagship at Manila Ray, and the Kaleigh, also of the Ma­ nila squadron, was under command of Capt. Jo­ seph B. Coghlan of "Hoch der Kaiser" fame. The Olympia is at the Naval Academy, the Brooklyn at the Philadelphia yard and the Raleigh at Mare Island. The armored cruiser Brooklyn, built at Phil­ adelphia in 1835-i)6, is the largest ot the vessels named. She is of 9.215 tons' displacement, and was completed at a cost of $3,067,915 The next largest of the four vessels is the Saratoga (ex- New York I, an armored cruiser of S,2i»0 tons dis­ placement, built at Phllarielr bla in 181)1 and cost­ ing almost as much as the Brooklyn. The Olym­ pia is a second-ciass cruiser, built at San Fran­ cisco in 1892-95 The Kaleigh Is a third-class cruiser, built at Norlolk at about the same time Both are ol the protected type. Some of '.he big armorclads are but recently <»ut ot commission, or "in reserve"--that means headed for Davy Jones's locker, though as yet the marked-down price tag iias not been attached Others--for Instance the $20,000,000 job lot of monitors-- would probably be unsalable at any price as floaiable or fighting vessels Admiral Ja<>k Philip's old battleship Texas, which bore the brunt of the fighting at Santiago, was rechristenel the San Marcos, so that her state name might be given to one of the new dreadnoughts. Then, last spring, the venerable war-horse was owed out into Chesapeake Bay and set up as e target for the New Hampshire's big guns and dyuamite shells to batter into scrap iron. What a comedown Irom twenty-five years ago, when the Texas, constructed at a cost of $4 ,202,121, was a beauty of the new squadron! Sampson's old flagship is now the Saratoga-- having surrendered her name to the newer New York. She has been rebuilt at a cost of more than halt a million dollars, and is LOW in the Philippines--the only one of the Santiago fighters In actual commission today. Schley s famous Brooklyn, in her declining days, reposes peacefully In the League Island navy yard. Philadelphia. The Iowa. "Fighting Bob" Evans' Fhip. is in reserve, as are also the Mas­ sachusetts, the Indiana and the Oregon--the gal­ lant battleship that Captain Clark brought halt- ay around the world in record time, without * break. These and other good old-timers are not yet "all in" by any means. Still they couldn't hold their own in the fighting line with such husky youngsters as, say, the Connecticut or the North Dakota, today, much less with the super-dread­ noughts of the Florida type of tomorrow. There­ fore. according to up-to-date standards they are in the obsolete class. When a vessel once gets there, as a rule, the rest is silence Even the proud Atlantic fleet battleships of 1907, that in De­ cember of that year sailed out of Hamp­ ton Roads on the famous around-the- world cruise -- the Alabama, Illinois, Maine, Missouri, Ohio, Kearsarge. Kentucky, Wiscon­ sin and New Jer­ sey--are out of the front line now. Some of them participated in the recent theoretical coast ma­ neuvers against New York and Boston, but they were technically "Bunk" by the submarines and torpedo boats. For an example of rapid tobogganing Into desuetude, lcok at the three stately prelected cruisers St. Louis, Charleston and Milwaukee, which cost about $3,800,000 apiece when they were built in 1902. Even then,\certain Dick Dead- eyes of the navy declared that this type was ob­ solete before the cruiser triplets went into com­ mission Be that as it may, at the present day these $11,000,000 worth 6f crulers are generally regarded as three white elephants vuich the navy is bothered to know what to do with. The monitors stand for a picturesque but ex­ pensive fad. dating from the infancy days of iron­ clads in the Civil war of fifty years ago, when Ericsson s small "cheesebox on a rait" in Hamp­ ton Roads put the Confederate Merrimac out of business and saved the nation. If It were not for "paBt performances" prestige there would not be ten million dollars' Worth of monitors rusting In the rivers today. Four of these curios, which have been within a decade reomdeled into single- turret coast defenders, are the Cheyenne, once the Wyomirg, the Ozark, formerly the Arkansas, and the Tallahasse and the Tonopah, which used to be respectively the Florida and the Nevada. When a special class craft is tried out, such, for example, as the Vesuvius dynamite gunboat of nearly twenty years ago, she soon either goes to the lumber attic herself or else puts some other type in the obsolete class. In either case, Uncle Sam's scrap-heap grows larger and more miscel­ laneous. Such is the universal law of naval evolution. England. France and Germany are in this same naval junk business on a vast scale, and Italy and Austria in a smaller way. The excuse is the general one of modern mili­ tarism--that competitive war preparation is the price of peace. Frotn the financial viewpoint of the taxpayer the high cost of peace is about the same as that of active hostilities. At any rate, the most recent practical lessons of war are applied, with marvelous results of progress to the world's navies, and in no country is this more strikingly exemplified than in the United 8tates. Walter 8 Meriwether, the well-known natal authority, has ehown In illustration of the de­ velopment of gunnery since the Spanish war tuat in the target practice of United States waf- ships today the percentage of misses is actually smaller than the percentage of hits was at San­ tiago. According to the same authority, the idea of the modern dreadnought or aii-big-gun battleship originated in our own navy. Years before the first English dreadnought was put in commission American-drawn plans for two such vessels, tenta­ tively called the Feasible and the Possible, re­ posed in dusty pigeonholes in the navy depart­ ment at Washington. They were resurrected later in the light of developments abroad. Thirty-five sea-going battleships and dread­ noughts--beginning with the Indiana, Massachu­ setts and Oregon group, laid down in 1891, and in­ cluding the new $8,000,000 dreadnoughts New York and Texas, yet unborn--may be said to con­ stitute the main line of Unci# Sam's sea tight \ers. The other battleship groups and types, in chronological succession are 2, Iowa; 3, Kear sarge and Kentucky; 4, Alabama, Illinois, Wis consin, Maine, Missouri and Ohio; 5, Virginia Rhode Island, New Jersey, Georgia, Nebraska, Kansas. Connecticut, Louisiana, Vermont, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Mississippi and Idaho After these, beginning in 1905-6 with the near- dreadnoughts South Carolina and Michigan, come the present dreadnought series: North Dnkota, Delaware, Florida, Utah, Wyoming, Arkansas, Texas and New York. In the meantime, as demonstrated in the mimic "Battle of Block island" this summer, the sub- % arines have practically proved the battleships vulnerable, therefore outclassed and obsolescent These maneuvers may be said to have borne out the prediction of a plank in the "Proposed Plat­ form for the American Party, published in 1907: "We desire that the American navy shall be the most powerful and efficient in the world; but we consider that new Inventions have displaced or are about to displace the battleship, cruiser, torpedo-boat and monitor, and therefore hesitate fo make further appropriations for these types of fighting craft." Conservative statesmen in the United States senate have denounced the vast appropriations for armored ships--sums estimated in the aggre gate at more than $10,000.000--as a bad invest­ ment. They have stigmatized the United States navy as "a lot of old tubs, more dangerous tc those on the in?lde than to those without." Even in England the day of the dreadnought i« beginning to decline, while the submarine--to saj nothing of the war aeroplane--Is yet in Infancy. At this rate, ere long, our congress may heai the cry of the armed-peace advocates changing to "Millions for development of the diving-boat; not one cent more for dreadnoughts!" The naval men themselves are not slow to reaf the signs of coming change. It may be .only a question of a very few yeari when the general adoption of a 14-lnch gun capa ble of shooting with accuracy at a distance ol fifteen miles will revolutionize naval warfare Such a pun Is now in process of trying-out, and If it proves a success it will make all the coast defenses of today praqtlcally useless. "There is no doubt," declares Rear Admiral Francis T Bowles, U. S. N., retired, "that a fleet equipped with the new 14-lnch gun of the latest type could raze New York or any other seaport In less than an hour. It seems to me that the answer to this problem of coast defense 16 made by t^e submarine. I believe that the submarine is going to be taken more seriously every yeai by naval experts. It Is the most deadly enemy ol the battleship." Airships To Be Invisible timn Adam Roenne Invents One Cov­ ered With Chromium Which Acts as a Mirror. Extraordinary though it may seem, patent rights have been granted in England for an improved airship whiclf wfll be invisible, says the lxjndon Standard. Though the Improved air­ ship is to be much longer than the leviathan lilW Olympic, yet at a height of 1,500 feet I t w i l l be detected with the greatest difficulty, and at 3,000 teet it will be absolutely Invisi- I bl<\ though Ipsa than a mile away. I W hen an aeroplane is a mile away. It man be remembered, the buzz of the engines cun be beard, so that were no attention devoted to the motors. tbe %j?ereaboutB of the- novel vessel iteeH*5vas Invisible. But silencing de­ vices now «ommon with best motor cars will be utilized for the engines, thus assisting the designer in his scheme for the production of an air­ ship capable of complete self-oblitera­ tion. The inventor is Baron Adam Ro­ enne, well known In England as an air­ ship and naval engineer. The main principle upon which the invention is j based is the equalization of light and | shade. The cover or enve'ope of the • :<ii ship is made of chromium, a metal posEe8sing a highly-polished surface, | which is perpetually retained by a covering of transparent varnish Therefore the metal Is equivalent tc a mirror, and It is by reflection that the invisibility is obtained. So that there will be no recurring shade shown on the bottom of the keel, tbii will taperlto a point. Ry this meant i tbe airship will always take the colot of its surrounding elements, and b« Invisible. The device has been sub mlttod by the inventor to the officials at Greenwich observatory, who declare thai It is thoroughly scientific an<J certainly practicable. NEWS NUGGETS FROM ILLINOIS Coal City.--Two small children of Mrs. George Steinberger, locked alone in the house, were endangered when the house caught fire. A neighbor saw the blaze leaping from the roof and turned in an alarm. Edwardsville.--A resident of Ed­ wardsville, who conceals his name, made a standing reward of $50 for in­ formation leading to the arrest and conviction of persons who have been poisoning dogs. White, Hall.--David Culbertson, eighty years old, was the oldest Odd Fellow present at the sixteenth dis­ trict meeting, comprising Morgan, Cass, Greene, Pike and Scott counties, held In Jacksonville. He has been a subordinate member of the lodge for 64 years. Rockford.--Charged with enticing Elizabeth Reischle from her home in Oconomowoc, Wis., to this city, George Mulholland, son of the wealthy head of the firm of Mulhol­ land, Kuebn & Co., contractors, of Kaukauna, Wis., was arrested here by Deputy Pole of Waukesha county. The girl was seventeen years old. Champaign.--The Illinois Central has finished Its hotel for strikebreak­ ers and is now ready to house the men In readiness for a long winter. The place has twelve sleeping rooms, accommodating forty-eight men at one time. Each man has his own bunk and locker to keep his clothes in. There Is also a lounging or reading loom. Chefs have been Imported from the Pullman diner service. Paris.--Detectives have found that the large quantity of dynamise discov­ ered near the Big Four bridge was stolen from the farm of I. Grant Brown, where it had been taken from a case to blast stumps. The detec­ tives have concluded that it was mere­ ly hid near the bridge and the person who hid it had no designs "on railroad property. Danville--Mike Palermo, commis­ sion merchant, complains to the au­ thorities that an enemy is polsotiing his stock In an effort to cripple him financially and drive him out of busi­ ness. Four horses, according to Paler­ mo, have been killed by means of poi­ son administered in some mysterious manner. Urbana.--Dr. B. E. Powell, private secretary to President James of the University of Illinois, has tendered his resignation and has been appointed editor of the publications of the agri­ cultural experiment station. This will comprise the editing of the bulletins and other literature gotten out by the station. No one has been appointed to succeed him as secretary to the presi­ dent. La Salle.--While seated at his desk, Albert J. Street, secretary and gen­ eral manager of the Peru Plow and Wheel company, died from heart fail­ ure. Mr. Street was president of the Illinois Valley Golf association. Edwardsville.--The monument com­ mittee of the Madison County Centen­ nial association, organized to observe the establishment of the first court in Illinois, September 14, 1812, procured permission from the Madison county board of supervisors at Edwardsville to locate the monument on the south­ east corner of the courthouse square. Joliet.--"Disgusting" Is the manner In which State's Attorney George A. Rarr characterizes the actions of a score or morCof Joliet persons who have asked Uilm to free Rev. John Horton of thebigamy charge. Accord­ ing to Barr there have been many re­ quests for Horton s freedom made simply because he is a minister. Champaign.--Loyalty to the Uni­ versity. of Illinois football eleven indirectly resulted in the death of Eugene C. Norton of Dundee, a freshman student in engineering, whose body was taken home by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Norton. The young man died in the Burnham hospital in Champaign of pneumonia, contracted, according to the physi­ cian in attendance, by attending the Illinois-Chicago football game at Mar­ shall Field on October' 21. Joliet.--Archibald S. Leckle, edi­ tor of the Joliet Herald, was horsewhipped on Ottawa street, in front of the new Herald building, by an irate woman. He seized the weapon and dragged the woman to a fire engine house, where firemen took the whip away. The woman is Mrs Oscar Brush, wife of a printer, against whom the Herald had printed certain damaging statements. She managed to strike Lickie three times across the back before he could catch her. He had refused to take back the charges against her husband. Springfield.--The state fire mar­ shal's office was notified of tbe arrest tof C. L. Lee in Jackson, Mo., on a charge of makings an affi­ davit to obtaining money under false pretenses in connection with insur­ ance. Lee formerly resided in Mat- toon. Lee. It Is said, moved a re®- tanrant outfit from Mattoon to Jaojc- son some time ago. Since then he has suffered fires both at Jackson and at Cape Girardeau. Mo. It It said the fires occurred within five days after Lee had taken out fire insurance policies. Springleld. -- State Fire Marshal C. J. Doyle, in his monthly re­ port issued, shows 573 fires were reported to the department during Oc­ tober. Of these. 310 were In Chicago and 263 were outside of Chicago. The fire loss in Chicago was $334,029; out­ side Chicago. $362,164. Suspected in­ cendiarism constitutes the cause for 22 fires outside Chicago and for 11 in Chicago. Dwellings were the build­ ings most commonly burned over the state Thirty-one of the 102 counties failed to report any fires in the month. FATE AND THE FLETCHERS Intervention That Made ft Certain Hour for Senator's Death Had Not Struck. Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Flor­ ida sought his berth one night on a sleeping car on the way south from Washington. Pulling back the cur­ tains of a lower nine, he saw that his bed Mfas already occupied. "HI. there!" called the senator, shaking the 6tranger by the shoulder. The sleeper awoke and protested angrily. "My name's Fletcher," explained the statesman, "and this Is my berth." "You've got nothing on me," an­ swered the other. "My name's Fletch­ er, and this is my berth." "My full name is Duncan U. Fletch­ er," the senator elaborated. . "So's mine," agreed the intruder. "Ah, I see," said the senator, po­ litely. "There must have been a mis take in reserving the same berth for two men of the same name. "I'll go into the next sleeping car." < The stranger, by this time, was folly awake, and proceeded to apologise, and to "offer to give up the berth. This the senator would not do, but went into the car ahead, and found a place to sleep. An hour later the train was wreck­ ed, The car in which the stranger occupied the lower nine fell through a trestle, and that Fletcher was killed. The senator's car was not damaged at all.--Popular Magazine. CURED SIX YEARS. No Fear of Further Kidney Trouble Mrs. Josiah Clinker, State St., Tama, Iowa, says: "My first symptom of kidney trouble was intense pain In my back. This grew worse until I ached. in every part of my body. I rested-poor­ ly and was so stiff In the morning I found it hard to dress. I became tired easily, lost flesh and was in a ^ad way. I was well pleased.with the Quick relief Doan's Kidney Pills gave me. They drove the pains away and restored my kidneys to a normal con­ dition. I have been free from kidney trouble for six years." "When Your Back Is Lame, Remem- berthe Name--DOAN'S." 50c,allstorea. Foater-MUburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. tslfjp Caring for Consumptives. There are now four special methods by which consumptive workmen In the United States are being cared for. In such cities as Albany, Elmlra and Blnghamton.v N. Y.. the unions sup­ port a separate pavilion or hospital. In cities like Hartford, New Britain and South Manchester, Conn., the work­ men contribute towards the mainte­ nance of a fund for the care of con­ sumptives. The employers also con­ tribute to these funds. There are also two national sanatoria for the treat­ ment of tuberculosis owned and oper­ ated by labor unions; one by the In­ ternational Typographical union, and the other by the Printing Pressmen and Assistants' union. In Massachu­ setts, Illinois and elsewhere large cor­ porations and manufacturers have agreed voluntarily to care for all their consumptive employes for a limited length of time. MY DAUGHTER WASCURED By Lydia E. Pinkham** Vegetable Compound Baltimore, Md.--"I send yon here. With the picture of my fifteen year old - ~-^^^«^-~daughter A1{ce who , 'jwas restored to V.' {health by Lydia E. APinkham's vegeta­ ble Compound, Shai as pale, with darts circles u n d e x he*: eyes, weak and irri­ table. 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