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their great success in that continent that
they are so sought after at the present
time. A few brave men conquered a terri
tory in Africa, about half the size of
France, in a short time simply because
they had very much better arms than their
enemies. Their enemies, however, had
breech- loading rifles"
"Do you refer to Lobengula2"
Eyes, he had $1,000 rifles, but did not
have any Maxim guns. Several African
chiefs have tried to get the Maxim guns
and we have also been approached by
people that want to take them out to
Madagascar. But we won't sell them to
Madagascar. The French are a great
nation and very good customers of ours
and we are not going to sell any guns if
we can help it to shoot Frenchmen with. "
"Have the Cubans ever come to you for
guns or have any Central or South
American peopleP"
AZ suppose as a rule we sell four or five
| hundred thousand dollars worth of various
kinds of guns year in South America
sometimes more and sometimes less"
eWhat," asked, would be the defense
against flying machines, supposing they
were adopted for war purposes?
"Other flying machines" said Mr.
Maxim, II saw in newspaper that some
one was praying that might never sue
coed in making flying machine, that 6
| flying machine would abolish the silver
streak British Channel), when English
men would have to take their chances with
the rest of the Europeans. They therefore
hoped that I should never succeed. If
had replied to this l should have said tha
the French and Germans were attempting
to make flying machines, that the defense
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once, instead of it's development depend

once, instead of its development depend
ing upon one man."
would not ships need to be equipped
with specially made guns to train upon
flying macnlnes?"
ga ship, naturally, has to protect some
thing besides itself. It would be no use to
have British ships in the channel with the
sole object of protecting themselves. The
ships are in the channel to keep hostile
army from landing in England. If they
had flying machines they could come over
in spite of the ships and drop their bombs
Anywhere they liked. Suppose now that
some rich nation should take hold of fiy-
ing machines and develop them. Say
the French should be possessed of flying
machines. People in other countries might
say they did not think they would do
much damage. Suppose now the English
and the French had dispute about some
thing and the question of going to war
was being discussed in the House of Par
lament; say at about 8 o'clock a vote
might be taken declaring war against
France. The French by some system of
Geographic codes would know at once that
war had been declared, and it might be
possible if they had lot of flying ma
chimes at Boulogne, in two hours after the
declaration of war and while the members
were still discussing the question, to have
the whole House of Parliament knocked
down oyer their heads by nitro
glycerine dropped from the sky and
the next morning they might
find Portsmouth and Woolwich and a
good many bridges and gas works com
pletely destroyed. After that nations
would be chary about declaring war
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to differentiation in. color was strength
ened In the process of fruiting minute
quantity of honey was secreted in each
flower, and this, foo, served to attract the
insects. Every sort of creature is fond of
sugar, and the insects came TO associate
the pale-colored flowers with the sweets
they loved. So the flowers that offered
the most honey were oftenest visited. The
petals, at first pale colored and small, be-
came larger and brighter in hue.
Now see how nature works. She will
spread feast for the insects and issue in
vitations, but will do it as cheaply as posi-
bic. The bright petals are attractive; SO
bright they shall be-but their brightness
means death. The petals are in reality
| degenerate leaves. The process of colora-
ton in them is process of oxidation SINH
lar to that which produces the brilliant
coloring of autumn leaves. When the
seed is actually ready for fertilization the
calyx opens and spreads out its attractive
announcement to the insect, not that he
can now make himself useful, but-cun-
ming Dame Nature-that feast is now
spread for him. When the flower has
actually been fertiized the pretty petals
fall off, the feast is over and the insects
work is done.
Now, there has been all along, an equal
development on the part of the insects.
The flowers have modified, not only in
color, but in form. The simple petals
In others they have united and formed
single cups and bells. Others again have
adapted themselves to the forms and re-
quirements of certain species of insects.
The insects, too, have become more and
more specialized. In word the develop
ment of the flowers and of the insects has
gone on until we have very highly spe-
cialized insects and equally specialized
fiowers-until we have the bee, the flower
and crown of the insect world, and the
orchid, the eliminating product of the
floral tribes.
The little gardeners are still busy, and L,
lying here in the grass ponderlng it all,
cannot but realize that there is little l
know of their labors after all. Longingly,
lovingly, faithfully though we ponder the
ways of mother earth, her signs and her
seasons, yet, after all, her real secrets are
past our finding out. We may not size
and count and know all the processes of
the ages, but there are certain runes we
may read, written in the grasses the flow
ers and the leaves, and we are better and
wiser for the effort that takes us away
| from self and the arts of life to the pages
of natures great book.
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thing that man can have is club, the
most expensive thing is Maxim gun.
The smallest size costs SIS minute to fire,
that is the cheapest one. The 1L-inch
inch gun costs $500 minute to fire."
THAT is at its maximum speed?"
eyes"
From that down to nothing2"
According to what rate you fire at"
"How many shots can you fire from one
OF these guns 2"
''With the 11S-inch gun we can fire 400
rounds minute"
"What will be the result of the race be-
tween the armor-plate maker and the gun
makers?"
''The gunmaker will always be ahead"
wv i'll they keep on increasing the size OF
ships In order to float the great armor
necessary to render them proof against
proiectiles?"
'They could not do that very well. A man.
of-war is always compromise. Ii you
have very thick armor you cannot have
high speed. Moreover when a gun is
larger than Pinch bore the mountings
and everything about it become enor-
mously heavy. The comparative strength
of the steel as relates to the volume also
becomes less in large guns, so / think that
instead of their being made larger than
smaller. 1t is quite true that armor-plate
might be piled upon a very large ship
thick enough to resist the fire from 12-inch
guns, but ship so protected would be too
heavy and cum bersome to be of much use !;
it would be more like a slow moving fort
than ship. / think that the next ships
will depend upon great rapidity of fire
rather than upon thick armor-plate."
Increase the power of attack rather
than that of defense2'
ayes"
"What do you think, comparatively, of
the naval ordnance of England and the
United States and France?"
.'Tbere is not very great difference.
The new guns made in the United States
are very effective; those made in England
are almost identical with them. Some of
the recent French guns might give higher
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SMALL GARDENERS.

Lying here in the tall grass and nodding
weeds I have been tor the last half-hour
watching an innumerable company OF
gardeners preparing next years crop.
How busy they are! Once in while one
of them brushes against me, the only idler
in sight, and goes off growing to himself,
doubtless wondering what 1 am doing here
intruding upon the society of busy people.
Once one of them lowered about my head
SO persistently for moment or two that
began to fear it might in the whole be wise
for me to retire. She finally went off, how
ever, but before she could resume hel
labors a terrible thing happened. Down
from great tree swooped one of her dead
Hest foes, and, Selling my small gardener
bore her off in triumph to where, doubt
less, a hungry brood of nestlings were
clamoring for just such tidbit.
For my wee gardener was neither more
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SOME OF THE MAXIM GUNS.

against flying machines would only be
other flying machines, and that l. living
in England and being identified with the
English people, would naturally be max
ing mine not to enable them to come here,
but to keep them from coming here.
Therefore, one ought to pray in the other
direction"
You will never be able to build flying
machine big enough to take a 13-inch
gun"
Flying machines will De used very
much as torpedo-boats when they come.
They are sure to come in time, because it
is possible to make them, and what it is
possible to make is sure TO come, espe-
clally if there is a great demand for it. For
instance if the United States should 90 to
war with some great nation and have a
long war there would certainly be some
body to put money into flying machines
and enough engineers would take hold of
the matter and make it big success at
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velocities, but as against that they are
shorter lived"
In single action would not the French
guns be more effective?"
1.-The velocities are only slightly higher"
"How about the Russians2"
1.-THE Russians are rather conservative
in guns; they prefer not to have such
enormously high velocities and to have the
guns last little longer, and the same may
be said of Krupp."
''How about the armor plate of ships OF
different nationsP
s'Au the recent armor plate is prac-
tically the same; it is Harveylzed nickel
steel.''
"Then it becomes question of equation
of officers and menu"
eyes; it is very evident that the Anglo
Saxon race, for instance, would manage a
huge fighting machine, such as ship
which has at least sixty steam engines on
board with greater facility than Spaniards
or Turks would be able to-"
"But how about Frenchmen"
81 am not prepared to say. Perhaps the
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A PREMATURE OBITUARY.

G. S. Coolidge of Santa Cruz Was Not
on the Colima.
Among those who were reported as hav.
ing gone down on the Colima was C. s.
Coolidge, a Santa Cruz printer. Mr.. Cool
idge was in this city yesterday and wired
the following dispatch to the Santa Cruz
Sentinel:
To Sentinel, Santa cruz: Don't write nv
obituary until after the carnival Will he
there. You had better write Zachs first.
c. s. COOLIDGE.
The "Zach'' mentioned in the facetious
S6 apmas for IS having ed ths world MI acGs0 a
COOLIDGE was dead.
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The Grocers, Picnic.

The Retail Grocers' Protective Union will
hold picnic on Wednesday next, June S. at
Schuetzen Club Park. They will close their
stores on that day. Several of the wholesale
houses have agreed to close their places of
business, and number of Representative
manufacturers will give their employees q
holiday that they may participate in the in
augural of grocers day in California.
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hour. 1 think they should travel from 60
to 100 miles an hour for the best results.
About 60 miles an hour would be very
fair speed.'
"Weil, as they cannot travel over 1000
miles they could not be used for trans.
Atlantic purposes"
mo, / do not think So"
HENRY IRVING DopGE.
Copyright, 1895, by S. s. Mcclure limited.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-14
MADE THEM NERVOUS.

a Bear Walked In . Yellowstone Hotel
and Mingled with the Guests.
At the hotel which was located at
the Upper Geyser Basin, but burned
last winter, there was last summer
big black bear who slept under the
house, and became SO tame that the
guests fed him, and one evening the
porters enticed him into the hotel Office
with sugar. He came in, walked
through the big lobby, smiled at the
telegraph instrument as though he
understood that it was clicking mes
cages back to the great cities of Amer
lea, and the walked to the front door
gazing out at Old Faithful, and hesita-
ting about his return to the pine woods
beyond. This playful prank of the
porters was, however, enjoyed more
after bruin had gone than while he was
in the hotel
The guests, who had no fear of him
out at the garbage box or around the
grounds of the hotel, were somewhat
nervous when he took possession of the
big lobby, where they were sitting
about the big, open wood fire, talking
about what they would do if bear
should walk into the hotel. They sat
like statues. and Manager Howe, who
had fed bruin from his hand outside,
felt that this was closer acquain t.
ance than he desired to cultivate.
He thought the bear might next move
on the dining-room and play the part
of the bull in the china shop. Mr..
Haynes, the official photographer of
the park, sat near enough to the door
to lay his hand upon bruin, but he did
not attempt to get his picture, though
he had been waiting years for a bear
to come up and sit for his photograph.
The kodak enthusiasts were too nerv-
Gus to even press the button and get q
snap shot. They all felt more COM
forta BILE when the bear walked out the
front door, across the veranda, and out
across the lawn to the pine woods.
Manager Howe told the porters
that while he wanted to keep
on friendly, = and even intimate,
terms with the bear, he did not
want him to infringe the rules against
dogs being allowed in the parlor or
dining-room, and a bear, gentle and
friendly as he might be, could not be
allowed privileges not given to tho
dogs.
That bear, says the Chicago Inter
Ocean. still haunts the Upper Basin,
but the hotel which sheltered him has
been burned, and Mr.. Howe has only a
lunch station there now. but he finds
him out at the garbage box just as be-
fore.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-14
NEW USE FOR BICYCLES.
Discovered in London That q Wheel Will
Show Whether . Man L. Intoxicated.

Discovered In London That q Wheel viii
Show Whether . Man Ii Intoxicated.
A new test of inebriation has been
discovered by an Englishman. says the
New York World. The latest that has
been introduced into America was the
requiring of the ''suspicioned" to pro-
nounce the words truly rural three
times rapidly, but the new English
method has decided advantage, and
it viii quite easily be trausplanted
and used here with effect. A pushing
British policeman on the Surrey side of
London found Mr.. William Andrew
Gill the other day in state which
suggested the unconscious cerebration
OF alcoholic symptoms and brought
him before a local police official Mr..
Gill defended himself masterfullv.
The policeInan's charge is wrong" he
SAID Il was on bicycle. and no man
who Is under the influence of liquor
can ride 3 tvo-wheeled machine
An interesting question is thus
opened, and question that admits OF a
good deal OF argument. A competent
London authority. after due reflection.
has declared that if the man drinks
steadily and only makes use OF st-aich.
liquids. there is no reason whv the
alcohol should not readily balance him.
But if, on the other hand, he mixes his
drinks with exasperatfng carelessness.
combining, for example, Scotch ale and
Dublin stout with dry champagne and
settler, there is every reason to fear
that the heavy liquors might fy OF to
one side. leaving the center of gravity
upset and tumbling the rider to the
ground
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The acha 1ay Eagle "wednesday gornu aueust a.

that 1 thought hin about sixty-nine.
He informed me that he was between
seventy and seventy-one. His voice
was singular, of rather low pitch, and
revealed very fanatical type of mind,
together with an unsuitable and irri-
table nervous system. ! stated to the
agent that Flatiron, which was the
name of the second Indian. was moody
and mercurial, aud withal not to be
trusted. The agent confirmed ny
opinion of the mans voice and told me
that he had made great deal oft-ouble
during his younger days. and that he
was prominent in the famous ghost
dances, so well remembered
The next Indian brought to me had
the remarkable name of Last Horse.
His voice was interesting. OF a tenor
barytone quality, it was frank and
kindly, but there lurked in its tones
caution, shrewdness and executive
ability. told the agent that thought
he had excellent executive ability. and
he replied that Last Horse was the
chief Of police in the camp.
Two Indian women were next pre-.
scented, and were introduced as Mrs.
Highbear and Mrs Redbear. The lat
ter held her little child's hand in her
own. Her voice was tender and affec-
tionate when speaking to her little one.
but when speaking to me it was girl
ishly shy. Its tones were warm, and
the voice itself was flexible. Mrs. High
bears voice was stern and cold, and in
dicated considerable temper. My judg-
ment of the women was confirmed
promptly by the agent
The voice of little Alice, the Indian
girl, five years old, was musical, and
reminded me in some waysof the chirp
of a bird, as she spoke her native
tongue to her mother.
l also studied the voice Of Spotted
Weasel, and found him of low order
of intellect, but kindly and good tenn.
Deyed
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IF you die I viii sleep by the side Of
your grave all the rest Of my life. "
This remarkable VOW was made fifteen
years ago to his sick wife by Edwin L.
Morrison, at tina: time chief clerk OF
the Pennsylvania freight department
and protege &C I.alph Peters, the
superintendent Of the Miami division
of the Pennsylvania road. He fol-
lowed lis w;fe's body TO the grave, and
remained seated beside it until the sex
ton, moved to pity By the constancy OF
the mans love, allowed him to sleep in
small tool house near by. And now
Edward l.. Morrison, once the hand
some, deoonair railroad man, is old,
wrinkled and haggard, but still sits in
his rude hut by the side of the tomb of
the woman he loved SO well. For Gf-
teen years he has kept up this solemn
vigil, yet the heart that was torn in
twain by poignant grief stin beats. and
the old man longs for the bride Of his
youth as the cycles of time roll on.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-14

AChina's foreign trade IL 1904
amounted to go, POI. s33 taels as COM
pared with 267, 995. 1870 taels in 1895 and
237, 6S7, 723 in 1892, according to the re-
centIy-published report of the Chinese
maritime customs. the exchange value
of the tael varying from 7G1s cents to
GAS cents during the year. The i'm
ports were 1872. 1872, Gil taels, and the ex-
ports 12s, l0i. 500. A smaller quantity
of opium was imported thar in any Of
the twenty past years. but its value
was higher The chief causes of dis
turbance, apart from the change in the
value of silver, were the serious drought
in the south during the spring and the
plague in Hong Kong, the war with
Japan having had no appreciable
effect till this year. One hundred and
thirty-three million taels of the trade
was with Hong Kong, "A with Great
Britain direct, &c with the United
States. 25 with the rest of Europe, ex-
cept Russia, 22 with India and Is with
Japan. Wool is becoming an important
staple of export, while gold in bars
ranked next to tea and silk. The gov
ernments revenue from customs was
O., sea, 600 taeis.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-14

Chey Had Waited Long asa AsxioasIy for
N Inquirer.

Chey Had Waited Long aud Asxiously for
y. Inquirer.
Roseleaf Bower is the name of a
dainty little cottage nestled among
spreading trees. on a spacious lawn IN
q booming New Jersey town. All
through April it was upside down and
heavy with the fumes Of varnish and
richly bespotted with whitewash and
calcimins Of every hue of the rain bow.
The rugs were on the lines and tho
chairs were on the beds 10 make room
for the spring cleaning. and nothing
was in its accustomed place that was
not stationary. But finally everything
was spick and span. and the owner pnt
the place in the hands OF every real
estate agent in the town for rent dur
ing the summer months And after
that came the awful suspense and an
guish that annually fill the breast of
the suburban householder until his
chateau is leased and he has settled
the burning question regarding his
abiding place for the sweitering sum-
mer solstice- His wife sat at the win
dow AL day watching for the ap-
preaching carriage Of the prospcc-
tive tenant. As IL Il were the long
lookedfor ship that must ultimately
arrive with untold riches And when
the lord of the manor would arrive At
night and toss the bundle of Goldfish
that he had lugged out for dinner
gracefully TO the ceek on the fly, be
would simply ask:
ANY prospectors out Cor to-day"
And when his wife would rrrly n
the negative, hs would poor forth
iamentatsen after lzrneatatioa. and
finally call down ma.cdictions upon his
own head for having laid out AL tho
money in fixing up the place
Then the wife would say;
1t il very early in the season yet,
and you know we rented later than
this last year Wow we must be patient
and hope for the best"
That's ali ever hope for he
would reply. but SAW the agent this
morning sad asked him how the mon
KEYS were jumping. and he said none
had been out yet and tast people we're
SO anxious that sbey coBgregatod about
his Office upon the arrival OF every ex-
press train from town
Well she would reply. cbeeriIv.
''tbe place is sxei ap For ourselves IL
no one SHOULD take the house, goa
know"
Yes. ] know that be wonid re-
spond, bet look y. the money I have
sp~nt advertising n Sc~ York pspcr-.
and every adj cost extra 10 have ma
malaria and mo ussa aitoe~7 pot "a
large letter. 20 foo. aud land the szzas-
nser Jay
After teis sort Of thing had been 20
Tag On for qzite awhile. sod even the
owners wife had soou; given rp n
despair. she sighted carriage eotn-
ing u2 the road oBe ssrssinv after
noon Rzuniny 20 the Dzse. she said.
AZ las. at last. . carriage II APP
p-caehi1y. viii be "A tie library -
receive iaez-
30 she foideS her hands IA breath
less expectation. and smiled ike
dery june ROSE. The bell RAGS. nrvs>
60 nasicsflv before Thea tie nszk4
opessd the door. and fsv inmates
LATER went "a the library and sasd:
.-Arx Prschblo~ wxn.& 20 knox IL
ycu vii bz- some fscSet&- ss- tns
ssTaStesry is&.ssa. 49, ~aaA
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W hits Elephants.

Knighthood is not an honor that
you can obtain in Siam as easily as
you can in many other countries. You
have to qualify for it By capturing a
white elephant which is. by all &C
counts, good deal more difficult than
to write indifferent poetry or to start
an anti-pu blishers' league The white
elephant is the national emblem of
Siam and all the specimens that can
be caught are kept in the royal stables
and live on the fat of the land There
are five of them At present in honora
BILE captivity. All the work they ever
have TO do is to take part twice a year
in a state procession and 10 support
the king by tteir majestic presence
whenever he has to receive a foreign
ambassador. Besides being knighted
their captors receive large money re-
wards. The more white elephants
there are in the kings news the luck
Ter does he reckon himself likely 70
be.-phila ieiphia Public Ledger.
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According to the newiy-issued army
list at Berlin there are only two men
out OF the sixty full generals who are
OF bourgeois origin, all the others be-
ing of noble birth. There are no less
than forty-nine regiments where the
corps OF officers consists exclusively of
aristocrats. This shows that the aris-
tocratic element in the corps of officers
in the German army is increasing, the
percentage of plebcian-born officers
having greatly diminished since tho
death of Emperor William L