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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-15
BRADSTRERS.

New York, Jan. 14.-Bradstreet's to-
morrow will say:
Dlstributive trade remains rather
quiet, mild weather throughout the
country tending to check distrbution of
winter goods, Prices generally remain
steady or tend upward, exceIR for some
grades Of iron, and orders for spring
trade, where received are encouraging.
Industrial activity is most manifest at
the west, where the demand for iron
is very large. A feature of the week
was the placing OF an order by one
railroad for 100000 tons of steel rails
with smalled orders aggregating in the
neighborhood of $4,000 tons moro. Pig
iron production is now at an unpreceden-
ted rate, the furance capacity being esti-
mated at 100000 tons a month. At
the South manufacturing activity is Il
feature, sales of iron being very heavy
A good export demand for cotton and
grain at steady prices is also a feature.
AT the east a number of strikes against
wage reductions are reported or expected
in the cotton industry. Some wooden
mills, working ON heavy mems wear
goods, are refusing orders, their capa-
city being fully booked. Anthracite coal
production, it is hoped in that trade, will
be restricted sufficiently to allow of the
advance of 10 to 80 cents per ton being
maintained. Weather has been disap-
pointing at he Northwest, but an i'm
provement in the demand developed at
some centres as the week advanced.
The rush to Alaska has already begun
| on the Pacific coast. Freight charters
are reported lower. Export trade con-
tinues large, a gain of s per cent on
| tho total export of breadstuffs, cotton,
mineral, oils, cattle and hogs and pro
visions being shown both for December
! and the calendar year.
Tho recent falling off in wheat ex-
perts prove, as was indicated last week
| ia B@adstreet's to have been due to
| the usual holiday quiet and not to any
falling eff of demand from abroad. The
4 total expoEE of wheat flour included
as Wlteat) fnsSa the United States and
| Nsgnada for this week amounted to
i3,1SD.f s6 busAaNis, against 3,48i, 600
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-15
2:T6 A. M, DAILY.

Atlanta Special'' Pullman VestFbvls
Tor Southern Pines, Hamlet, Wilmiwg.
son, MOnroe, Charlotte. Lfncolnt@T.
Shelby, Chester, clinton, GreenwosS
Lb6eviHe, Athens, Atlantis, Augusta, @sG
um0ia, Macon, Montgomery, Mobile New
Orleans Chattanooga, Nashville, Mem
pl1is and all points south and sOutAweral
through Pullman Buffet sleepers and aav
coaches Washington and Atlanta, esr.
Meeting directly at Union depot, AtaRaa
with diverging lines; also Pullman slssE
ing ear Portsmouth to Chester, q. q.
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sBORTEsT ANDQUIUKBST HOt~Fg
To Atlanta, New Orleans, Norfolk. FaseS
nond, Washingt0n, Baltimore, PkilaSea
Dhia, Bnston, New York.
sehedul~ 10 effect Nov. LIST. 1922
TRAINS LEAVE RALEIGH
z:l5 A n. DAILY.
Atlanta Special" PullnGs yestlAya
for Henderson. Weldon, Petersburg R,0F
mond, Washingtos. Baltimore, PhiIaSss
phia, New York. AIT ell poipts aoy4F
bunet drs wing-roofa sleepers and PalR
, coaches Atlanta 70 Washington, qag
Tor cars Washington TO New Yorh p.
man sleeping car. Chester, g. a.. pavsr
mouth. Arrives at V'ashinRton iO.4E n
n, Baltimore II nOOA. PhnadeIpbis -
2. m, New York 4:52 p. "a. Also e.
Portsmouth, Norfolk. Old Poi and Ices,
stations SeabOard and Roanoke raIlToaR
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-01

nne Du1hneaT. Tne cylinders WIN be thirty.
three and one-half, 1fty-one, and seventh.
eight inches In diameter, with q common
stroke OF forty-eight inches. The indicated
morse power OF propelling, air pump, and cir.
culating pump engines is II. 900, when maxim,
12O revolutions to the minute. The cooling
surface OF main condensers Is 1000 square
feet and that of the secondary condenser
500 square feet '.....
There are eight single-ended steel boilers of
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS fire-tube type. placed
In four water-tight compartments. Particu-
lars: Length, Q feet II Y inches; diameter, Is
feet 67s inches; working pressure, pounds per
square inch, $50; total heating surface of all
boilers, 21,20O square feet; total CRATE sur
race, 6SH square feet; furnace fues, 4; dia-
meter of hues, 80 inches. .. ..s.... r.
Two sets Of triple expansion engines, each
IN its own. water-tight compartment, will
aotuate the twin screws, while the great
boilers, each sustaining pressure Of $50
pounds OF steam, will supply the energy need
tul to drive those engines and turn the screws
12O times a minute. ,t -.....
The turrets will be turned and controlled by
electricity, and the same power will bring the
ammunition from its storerooms to the
Dreeches OF all the large guns-the six poun-
GERS and less excepted. Each mast will be
lifted with it's own signal outfit, and the
lower half Of each mast will form vast
wind pipe, down which fresh air will be
drawn to the depths of the craft
Eighty odd auxiliary engines will reduce
the tax upon the muscular energies Of the
crew and add to the efficiency OF the ship
by handling and lowering the boats, raising
the anchors, loading the coal, discharging the
ashes, bringing the shot, shell, and powder
from the depths below to the gun stations, and
turning the turrets, and, except for the guild
ance OF these mechan:sms named, manual
labor is practically needless.
The two smokestacks on the Illinois will be
s1de-side, in ferryboat fashion. This is
a new idea and has never been used on q
battle-ship BEFORE
i throughout the vessel the use Of wood is
reduced to a minimum, the stateroom bulk
heads being made of steel covered with cork
sheathing, and every attention has been given
70 lighting, heating, draining, and ventilat-
ing the ship In the most approved and eff
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-01
HAD TO HAVE SOME PEANUTS.
How General Merritt's' Appetite Was
Satisfied by a Ragged Boy.

How General Merritt's Appetite Was
satisfied by a Ragged Boy.
"a few weeks ago." said Washington
man who travels good deal, II was cross
ing from New York to Brooklyn on the Full
ton ferry. I stood on the forward deck Of
the ferryboat to get a breath Of air. Stand
ing alongside Of me was a ragged newsboy,
industriously munching some hot peanuts
that he had got at the ferry entrance.
On the other side of the peanut eating
newsboy was fine-looking elderly Nan, Of
a decidedly military appearance.
This military looking man was to the
windward of the boy with the peanuts, and
he began to sniff hungrily, as noticed, as
he looked at the urchin beside him. He
watched the boy munching his peanuts UNI
til the ferryboat was half way across the
East. river. Then he held out the open
palms Of both of his hands to the lad, say
ing, For heavens sake, boy, give me some
>peanuts, quick!
"The boy, who knew his gait al right,
grinned,. and dumped half the contents Of
his bag of peanuts into the elderly mans
hands. The latter ate those peanuts vora-
ciously for the remainder Of the trip across,
and when he disembarked he led the news
boy up to a peanut stand and bought him
whole armful Of 'em. The elderly, military
looking man was Major General Wesley
Merritt, who's now going out, see, to help
George Dewey run that new acquisition of
ours, the Philippine islands. Washington
tor < Z.
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How Africa Appears After Two
Years Of Life There.
WAR, TRADE, AND GOSPEL
Country Is Fast Being Civilized
by European Forces.
Native Control Is q Bad Thing for the
Land as 1t Prevents Adequate
Development.
BY BISHOP HARTZELL.

Bishop ]. G. Hartzell of the Methodist Epis-
topal church, who for the last two years has
been missionary bishop for Africa, has returned
to America for brief rest. His article descrip-
tive OF affairs in Africa was prepared for tho
Northwestern Christian Advocate, and is pub
hshed by the courtesy Of that paper.) =. (,
England is supreme in South Africa. which
now means all below the twenty second de-
gree OF latitude. J! The South African republic
and the Orange; Free State, the two Dutch
republics, are shut out from the sea. They
are now progressive, but on the north, west.
and south are hemmed in by English colonies
En&aand's latest triumph is Rhodesia. This
new colony includes 100000 square miles Of
territory. extending practically across the
continent from east to west, and northward
from the South African republic, and Bechu-
analand to the lake regions beyond the Fam
tbesi, almost touching British East Africa,
which stretches up to the Hinterland, OF
Egypt, where now the anglo Egyptian army
Is doing glorious battle against dervish
fanaticism and opening to the Mediterranean
the way for England's flag. Already tele-
graph lines arc extending northward through
this opening way, and soon the railroad will
follow both to join telegraph and railroad
from the north somewhere on the Nile.
, Unless there Ia wise craftsmanship in Lon
don, Berlin, Paris, Lisbon, and Brussels, some
Of Europe's wars will be fought in Africa
within the next few years. The control Of
Africa by European nations means govern
ment, law, commercial development, educa-
ton, and Christian missions. Africa now Of
fers the er>atest opportunity for the sI2nce!-
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cause "irs water was not all dried up, or had
not sunk; too far in the sand. Occasionally
farms could be seen, indicating a spring ar
wei!s: at Matjesfontein a Scotchman has
built hotel and villas dug wells. NAMED
Australian gum Of eucalyptus trees, and made
picturesque health resort. This is won
uer1uI land for people with weak lungs, Sta
lions and villages appear every ten or fifteen
m1!es, and the people look thrifty and happv.
ms kafroo country, which includes so much
OF Central and Western South Africa, reminds
me OF the great mountain plateaus of Mon
lana and Nevada Can they be irrigated? 7
tnougnt OF our Major Powell, that prince az
practical scientists, whose genius has mada
mlli1ons OF arid acres bloom in the Western
states, ana wished he might study the "South
AFRICAN irrigation problem" In the end .
country agriculture settles it's future.
Our arrival at Kimberley had heen u,r.d b.,
Brother Flint to Brother Robinson, the c,,1s
tureo wesleyan pastor. So we were greeted
at Inc depot by him and his chief steward
MI. Oliver. The latter drove us to his house
wnere his cultivated English wife and their
ca!oren received US cordially and made US
their guests until Tuesday morning. =
Sunday was busy day. 1 had heard tall,
OF what Americans would call "a negro con-
gregat1on' using the Dutch language: ne
groes talking and singing and preaching in
Dutch. In the morning sat in such con
eresatlon, TO all outward appearances like
many OF our colored congregations in the
South. But when the preacher began reading
the hymn realized that was in a>for-
eign land, and that feeling grew as the peo-
pie with earnestness rolled out with nroner
gutteral fulness the Dutch language as spoken
in Holland, modified some by generations OF
isolation at Cape Town.
The afternoon was given to the com
pounds" These are large squares Of ground
Enclosed by high fences, within which are
houses and every convenience to makescom-
Portable the natives who live in them, and
who work in the diamond Mines There are
several of these enclosures and about Ia. 900
natives are on an average kept in them For
years the stealing Of diamonds by the La
borers took away an enormous per cent Of the
profits. The precious stones are so small as
compared with their immeasurable value and
they are SO easily stolen by being hid in a
garment seam, an open wound, in the lining
Of shoe, or by swallowing, or by throwing
clods of mud and wads Of paper, rich in
Jewels, to confederates appearing at appointed
times and places, that 1t was found necessary
to completely isolate the miners. These
natives come from tribes scattered over many
hundreds of miles, and stay an agreed time
one or more years. Fhen they return with
their money, give part to the king Of head
man, and keep the rest. An African native
boys ambition is to get money enough to
secure three or four wives. Then he is
fixed for life. Each wife has hut and
makes 9. garden to help feed her husband
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advancing from DaKar ana ST. Louis toward
Timbuctoo; road from Cairo is extending
southwark. England and Germany are both
building from the east coast: 500 miles of
road to lake regions are in operation.
/ Paul Kruger is an .anachronistic Joshua,
non-progressive, almost retrogressive, and
his republic Is one only in name. He knows
nothing OF the first principles Of political
economy. A short time ago he was re-
elected by a majority out of $4,000 Beers,
while hundred thousand Europeans, rep
resenting vast wealth and enterprise, were
disfranchised. johannesburg has more gold
In sight than the total now circulating in
the world. There are several other gold
centers In the Transvaal, and the wealth in
coal, timber, marble, and agriculture at
other points is inexhaustible.
It Is 647 miles from Cape Town to Kimberley,
and it required from $3.50 O'Clock Thursday
evening until 8 o'clock Saturday morning to
make the journey.
The railroad runs east and northeast at
first through beautiful suburban farms and
villages, gradually rising in altitude until
at Hout Kraal, $40 miles, you are 4,277 feet
above the sea, and fifty, miles beyond you
cross the Orange river at an altitude of 3,542
feet. This river rises in the Draksenburg
mountains on the East coast and makes it's
way through nearly fifteen degrees of longi-
mountain scenery is very fine.
Fifty-eight miles out from Cape Town you
pass through wellington, where there is
girls school, and where thirteen American
ladies teach; school with a remarkable his
tory in good accomplished. A forty thousand
dollar stone building is being finished. A
large share of the money and all the furnish
ing came from America. The government
gave $4,000. The school has a great future,
and is up to date, monument to the faith
and sensible work of Andrew Murray, a
man who Is at home among Dutch or English,
and who has a heart for the neediest, aud
commands the respect of all. His latest
scheme is having the Dutch church, which
is exceedingly. conservative in matters Of
education among both whites and natives,
establish three schools for poor white girls'
who, as In the Southern states of America,
represent large class
A few miles beyond Wellington the road
Climbs Its zigzag way 1000 feet up on to the
great plateau, or karroo, as here called. All
DAY long the same wide expanse of scenery
with little variation in altitude or appear
ance, presented itself. We were hardly out
OF sight of mountains on either hand. manv
OF them being single peaks rising up from 500
10 l,ooO feet above the general level There
were only here and there few trees of STINT
ed growth. October is spring time in South
Africa, and the rainy season had not begun.
so tnere was no grass, the rivers and creeks
were dry, and only once in while could the
course OF one be traced by green hushcs- BE-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-01

| Isau OF construction is SO welr pleased with
| tae experiments in small vessels however
! tnat 1t was decided to provide the Illinois
Win me corn-pith protection before it had
trlai IN the kearsarge This pith is com
pressed to density Of six pounds Der cubic
| toot; Is American manufactured and per
| Iectly hreproof. To protect the vessel fur
!ner against rahing fire and avoid serious
damage TO boilers and engines, the opening
between the fiat deck and the sloninp .idae 10
at the extremities of the machinery snace
closed by diagonal armor bulkheads twelve
| inches in thickness.
From the top of the thick belt. extending
TO the main deck, the hull is further nro
.eGteo 10y oelt OF light armor five and, one
half inches in thickness, running from bar.
bette to barbette and ending in diagonal
ouikneads In line with the twelve-inch bulk
neaa5 DeioW. Within the limits of this belt
me Droadside torpedo tubes are placed. IN
BOARD OF this five and one-half-inch arnaor.
auu e1'enGlEg we'll forward and aft, are
worked coner dams three feet in width and
three feet high, the top of the dams heinz
TX and one half feet above the load water
i!ne. Like the other Golfer dams, these are
also nlled with corn pith cellulose. The side
OF tne snip between main and upper decks.
ana from forward barbette to point lust
forward Of the after turret. is protected Nv
I'VE and one half-inch armor, with diagonal
armor examinations, the forward one being
worked Immediately over the diagonal bulk
head of the deck beneath. -
Within this light redoubt, previously re-
ferred to, are placed eight of the six. inch
rapld-t1re guns. Thus the central portion Of
TIE vessel is completely inclosed by a con-
tlnuous wall of armor extending from four
rect below the load water line to the level
OF the upper deck, a distance of about TWENTY
three feet, and the walls of this redouht are
IN no place less than five and one-half inches
through. In addition to this very complete
protection OF the main part of the six-inch
battery against penetration by smaller pro-
JectAes, the men who handle the guns are
even further protected by the splinter bulk
heads previously described, thus minimizing
the eHect OF exploding shells. The other six
inch gun positions on the gun deck forward.
and on the upper deck amidships are protected
by slx-1nch armor,, that on the upper deck
being turned In at the ends In order to be
enectual against raking fire.
Engines and Coming Tower
The coming tower, the position Of the
omcer In command, is inclosed by armor ten
inches thick, being connected with a central
station below the protective deck by a. tube.
the walls of which are seven inches in thick
ness. The ship is also provided with an
armored signal tower at the after end of the
superstructure deck, the walls of which are
six inches thick
The Illinois will be driven by engines of tho
vertical, Inverted cylinder, direct acting.
tripie-expansion type, placed in two water
tight compartments separated by a. middle
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zat1on of the last mass Of heathenism on

izat1on of the last mass Of heathenism on
Garth untouched by the gospel
Outside the little negro republic on the
west coast, all Africa is rapidly coming under
the control of the white man. For thousands
of years the millions of the black race have
occupied the African continent, but there has
developed no organized government, no liter
allure, no art, no science. Some tribes have
been in advance of others, but their history
has been one long and sad succession Of tribal
wars, of slavery, of superstition, and moral
death. A student of Africa has estimated
that one powerful barbarous king caused the
death Of 100000 natives at the beginning
of the present century. The opportunity Of
the native races of Africa to rise to high and
permanent civilization themselves has lasted
thousands Of years. but has now passed away.
In South Africa, where there are now 1,000,-
600 whites and 100000 natives, the two races
ere to live side byside under, European rule,
probably in about the same proportion as now.
In greater Central Africa there can scarcely
be any European; colonists but Europeans will
rule: giving protection and opportunity to
natives whose numbers will continue to
multiply in proportion as they are delivered
from tribal wars, the domination of fetish
priests polygamy and slavery. The most in
telligent and moral, best fed and cared for
100000 Of negroes on earth are those III
the United States. They are many genera
ants of Ham In Africa.
Our missionary work in Liberia is hopeful.
I appointed eighty five workers at the recent
annual conference, organized more fully the
educational work, and am planning to send
out more workers. We also have large OPP
portunity for advance in Angola, where our
line Of missions extends $50 miles from st.
Paul de Loanda to Malange. The latter place
is 5000 feet above the sea, in the midst of
an immense and intelligent native people.
We have 100000 square miles of territory to
ourselves, except for one Roman Catholic
mission. Our missionaries know the Ian
guage, and we have some Christian literature
and are translating more.
It is interesting to note the great progress
in African railroads. There are now 5000
miles of track south Of the Zambesi. The
extension Of the Cape Colony system 1,4OO
miles north of Bulawayo will soon be con-
tinued to Victoria Falls GOO miles farther
north) to the Zambesi and eastward to Sails
bury, where it will be met by rsuroa from
Beira 400 miles distant on the east coast.
Half Of the last named road is now running.
Both Germans and English are building roads
into the interior from Walsh bay on the
west coast. In Angola 200 miles already
have been built from st. Paul de Loanda to
Ambaca, and the line will extend farther
toward the Upper Congo. OF the Congo rail-
road to Stanley pool, 800 miles were completed
in Z few weeks. In Sierra Leone road is be-.
ing pushed to. the interior. French lines are
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,The same Homo

Many a husband is lost In wonder az he r..
fleets that the glowing hand which spanks
MS children and serves up his cabbage is the
nets. about and which he never kissed WITH.
out sense of reverence amounting to ran.
ture.--Roxbury Gazette. s
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Different.

Those folks next door must have bought
that house.
what makes you think so?"
81 heard her scolding the maid for driving
picture nail in the plaster.''-Detroit Free
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neaEsarge. THIS IS an explanation Of the fact
mat these ships with such heavy displace-
ment draw only twenty three feet and six
inches OF water, even less than the armored
cruisers Brooklyn and New York which com
Illinois. - -
A comparison Of the Illinois class of vessels
with any foreign battle-ships built or now
building will in every instance be to the ad-
vantage Of the United States ships. The
American vessels carry heavier guns and
more OF them; heavier armor, more widely
distributed. and protecting more thoroughly
the vitals OF the ship and the gun crews. Thei,
normal speed Of sixteen knots will be less on
paper than Of most foreign built battlc-ships.
-. II should be noted that this speed will be
oDtalned with moderate forced draught.
ana without unduly pushing the engines, So
that 1t may be expected at any time This
sp S can be duplicated by these vessels,
W. Wn'ae II is notorious fact that foreign bat
!.le-snlps never approach their trial speed
invariably made under forced conditions.
Batteries and Armor,
Inc general dimensions anG feot,,re. ~ ~.
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ReauitaI.

Sandy McQuirk Ito porter. who has been
about ten minutes looking after his luggage)
In. Wull ye tax peench o nuff?-London
TIT Bits.
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Corn..Pith Ce11ulo.e U.ed. .

Where the protective deck is inclined at the
sides. as above described. Golfer dams three
leet IN width and extending to the top. Of the
armor belt are provided, and packed with
corn -pith cellulose, similar to the material
to be used in the Kearsarge and Kentucky
as an experiment In battle -shina. Dhe b..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-01

ana ma11Tam Ine cnIldren. CiUInlng cosIs
but tride. The compounds secure to the
miners good food, regular hours, the saving of
their money, and give opportunity for mis-
sionary work by preaching and schools Best
Of all, it keeps them from the curse of rum
Without some kind Of protection their moral
and physical decentralization is fearful. A
common remark is: 'The natives come to the
gold and diamond mines savages; they go
away devils" The compound system is
good thing