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Thus all conditions are favorable to a trial of our race; upon the conduct of Admiral Sampson and Commodore Schley's officers and bluejackets de- bends not merely the honor of the Unit ed States but the very existence of the British empire. If the men who are hourly expecting battle in the Carib- bean falter, if they show any want of courage or sailorship-which God for bid-then let us be certain that an att tack will be delivered upon England by her enemies, who will conclude. and not unjustly, that the military uualf- ties of the Anglo Saxon have declined under the depressing burden of civili- zation. And as this is the greatest problem to be settled in the war. so we shall hope and pray that our race may emerge with glory from the test
 In yet another curious respect the cir cumstances of war between England and France are represented. England like the United States,s mans her navy by voluntary enlistment. and has an exceedingly small trained reserve. France, like Spain, employs compulsory service, and has a large reserve. But here an element of difference comes in. for whereas the English peace-serv- ice force far outnumbers the French, the American-without any real re- serve--is greatly outnumbered by tha
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It is not surprising to learn that cap tains lost health and nerve, or went crazy under such burden. In British maneuvers week or ten days of block ade under modern conditions has suf- feed to show that the burden has grown heavier and not lighter.
 Connected with this subject is the trial of the sea-keeping qualities of our new ships, which this struggle will im- pose. The engines and loilerS of the battle-ship or cruiser are lighter and weaker than those of the merchant ship, knot for knot. since weight is a most important consideration. In time of peace the warship rarely steams faster than 10 or F knots, at which pace her machinery may perform well enough. But in war time she may have to steam continuously for days at her very utmost speed; or, if in com pany with a fleet, she may have now to run at top speed, now to stop, now to go astern, when the strain becomes tremendous, American ships are well boilered, and should stand this kind of work as well as any. Where they are perhaps weak is in the number of tricky engines and "dodges' that they carry. Hand-worked ammunition hoists are preferred in the British navy for moderate sized guns.
 ed with the greatest interest.
 As war grows more terrible, more devilish. it would seem that the loss Of
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Graphic account of the bornbardrnent as seen in the city by Captain Spray, who ran the blockade and reached the Spanish fleet in the harbor.

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life diminishes. Deadly as the new weapons are, they have so great a. moral effect in the fighting man that they prevent the close actions which were so bloody in the old days. I have in "Ironclads in Action compared tha loss of life and limb in six of the great est battles, and it stands thus: Yaln 1512 per cent, Lissa f, Trafalgar about 20, the Nile 20. Camperdown 13. and the First of June 1513. In the old battles men were not infrequently injured or killed by the recoil of their own guns This feature was faithfully reproduced at the Yalu, where no less than ten Japanese-according to Dr. Suzukf's report-died from "the vibration of air caused by the firing of their own guns" This in the modern ship Is a new and most potent cause of mischief. In a. British battle-ship I have seen a six pounder gun severely injured by the blast of 10-inch weapon-and had there been men quartered at 1t they would have been killed. We know that, at the trials of the Indiana, it was re- ported that her great 13-inch turret guns, if trained at their extreme angle. would have killed all the men at the six-inch gun, past which they fired. We know, too, that in certain French ships the men have to be recalled from the lighter guns before the heavy weap- ons can be fired in certain directions.
 H. W. WILSON.
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THE second naval war withinfive
 years is upon us. Once more the
 machines which the ingenuity or
 man has invented for the pur-
 pose of destroying man are to be tested in action-are actually being test ed while these lines are in the writing. And not the machines only, but also the men who handle them. The Latin and the Anglo-S Saxon, so often in conflict in the past, are meeting once more in bat tie; and issues the most momentous hang upon the conduct of the combat ants The war between the United States and Spain is copy on a very reduced scale and with some slight notifications of a war between Eng land and France. It is not my purpose in this article to work out a detailed comparison; I can only suggest it. The great British superiority in battle-ships and unarmored cruisers as against France is faithfully reproduced in the American navy as against Spain. The great French advantage in armored cruisers finds its parallel in the Spanish navy. Even in torpedo craft the nu- merical equality which exists between England and France is repeated with some correctness in the two combatant n~vies.
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against the armored cruiser and of the large armored against the large unar- mored ship. If put less technically, the question is this-which is the more val uable factor, speed, or armor combined with heavy guns? The battle-ship is a huge structure, thickly plated with steel on her most vital parts, carrying immense guns in heavily arrnored tur- rets, but is usually of comparatively low speed The armored cruiser, on the other hand, has much less armor-both in area covered and in thickness of plating on that area; her heavy guns are fewer in number and weaker in power, though in her quick-f1ring ar mament she is generally much the same as the battle-ship. As compensa- tion for these points of weakness she has speed of from three to five knots greater than the battle-ship.
 The want of heavy guns in the ar mored cruiser is not quite so serious as it might seem. It is perfectly possible that the battle-ship's monster pieces, with their ponderous turrets, moved by hydraulic or electric power, will at an early stage in the action be disabled. Hydraulic and electric machinery is notoriously delicate, and is deranged with the utmost ease. It is rare for a battle-ship to go to target practice with her heavy guns without some slight hitch occurring What it would be when the enemy were firing at her, when her pipes and wires were expos ed, not merely to the concussion and shock of her own heavy weapons, but also to the far more dangerous explo- sion of the enemy's projectiles inside her hull, may be guessed. And though every precaution which human fore sight can suggest has been taken to protect these pipes and wires and the machinery they work, it is far from certain that any armor or any protec- tion can secure them against the tre- mendous shock caused by the huge pro- jectiles of modern guns. The Spanish 11-inch breech-loader, as mounted In several of Spain's armored cruisers, strikes with a force sufficient to lift the Indiana two and half feet in the air.
 At the Yalu there were several break downs of heavy guns in action, though there the shooting on either side was bad and the test was not so severe as it might be expected to be in a battle between three or four American battle ships and the Spanish armored cruisers
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At the bombardment of Alexandria the firing of the heavy English guns was intolerably sIow-due probably to the great difficulty of working them in the face of constant small accidents. And quite lately, when a charge of powder prematurely exploded in the turret of the Russian Sissoi Veliki, it is signif1- cant that the turret was hopelessly damned and the turning machinery disabled, so that half the ships heavy armament was put out of action.
 Nor can the problem be solved by peaceable practice from the large ship at targets representing torpedo boats, lowed toward her. We might thus learn the number of hits her gunners would make on boat if they were perfectly cool; but there would be no allowance for the strain caused by the knowledge of the fact that if they did not hit the boat before she closed them, she would send them to the bottom. Actual war alone can determine the precise value of the torpedo boat.
 The ram has been so entirely discred- tied since the torpedo was perfected that there Is but little prospect of it's being employed. The United States, however, has one specially built ram, the Katahdin, whose performances will be watched with interest. It is not to be expected that she will startle the world. She is a survival of the ideas of the Civil War, when ramming was recognized part of naval tactics. Now adays a captain would not risk injuring his ships bows, but would use his bow torpedo, which would do the work of the ram most effectively. The Ameri- cans have other novel weapons-among these the pneumatic guns, projectors of aerial torpedoes-more may be ex- pected.
 Another matter on which we badly need information is the practicability of maintaining a blockade with the modern engines of naval war. To make the test thoroughly satisfactory, there should be torpedo boats in the block aded port This condition is wanting at Havana, and therefore Admiral Sampsons task has been. up to the time at which I write, comparatively simple. His officers and crews have not been subjected to the cruel moral and phys ical strain which the possibility of tor pedo boat attacks imposes. Nor have they had constantly to look out for the sailing of a hostile squadron inside Havana, almost equal in
 force to them 6 6 Q a 6 @ e o q $ selves. This was the
 a striking feature of . Is already x our blockades of
 the Ere. ports
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Spanish. There has been much debate as to the use of untrained men in naval wars. Great light on this most burning question should be afforded by the present struggle, for one-fourth or so of the men who take the American fleets to sea must be untrained.
 It is not that the untrained man is necessarily coward-though disci- pline is a tremendous force to give courage. But he is not enough of a machine; he has not learned to repeat the movements, we will say of the breech-lever, automatically under the stress of novel and terrible experiences. A well-trained gun crew will hold to- gether, as the history of our navy shows, till the men are shot to pulp or the ship is sunk. But where there are only one or two trained men in the de- tachment, and these are killed early, as they may always be, the untrained man does not know his work and is apt to be seized with panic. More happens in naval battles than gets into the books. At times we catch a dim glimpse, through the smoke and heat of action, of miserable fugitives hiding in the hold, and only driven to the guns by the fiat of the officers swords
 But it is, after all, upon the construc- tion and value of our war ma chimes that we expect most light to De SDeu NdNdl Scleuce mas been revolutionized since Lissa and t,4e Civil War; and even then there were no purely naval actions worth studying. In the China Japan war the conditions were unfavorable for any striking deductions, as the Jap anese against the Chinaman was much as a man against a child in arms, and neither side possessed powerful modern armored ships.
 The warship of our own day, be she battle ship, monitor cruiser, or torpe- do boat, is an experimental craft She has not had to undergo the prolonged and severe practical tests which re- moved freak ships" from our line-of- battle or navy list in the old three decker days. The. progress of naval science during the last fifty years has been so rapid that the experience ac- quired with one kind of ship in one war becomes useless in the next, because the kind of ship has changed. By lex perience,' should say, I mean experi- ence in regard to details of construc- ton and tactics. not in regard to the broad principles of strategy, which are
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NHVHL PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED
 IN THE PRESENT WAR;

Leun the oe9 Conflict
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strategy, Which are unchanged and un- changing.
 The first great problem to be de- cided is the value of the battles shir
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-08-10
A Blind Tiger Caught With Both
Eyes Open.

Near the corner of Main apd Dugaa streets
s,ands an uoprstensious little barber shop,
patronizsd by colored people. George Tin
dali, the proprietor, is more consequential in
appearance, az be wa:ks the streets in beaver
hat. Prince Alber, coat and watch chair
that would hold dos.
1t seems wonder that 80 big man can
st 80 small shop. 1t has been suspected
for sometime that George wss ranning
sblind tiger" and The police bave been keep
ing an eye on the den.
Saturday right Officers Bradford and Sey'
moue stationed themselves on the opposite
side o; the street in the shadow Of tree and
waited for developments They did not have
to wait long before they saw George serving
two negroes from quart flask of good old
corn. They swooped down like the eagle on
his prey, and George made break through
his back door and shrew the TASK over into
the adjoining yard. BE WAS arrested, the
flask recovered and several more found in bis
shop-rye, cora whisky and wine
George was lodged in Jail to await pre-
liminary bearing, which nust result 10 send.
ing him up to the court OF general
sessions. and from thence to punishment; fol
We see, as With prophetic vision, that George
must discard the beaver and Prince Albert
and don the striped uniform he must lang
up his banjo and fiddle on the wall and lay
his hand TO the pick, the PICK to the rock IN
the city of the Coiumoians on th. river Con'
garee.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-08-10
Disgusting Sights.

Passing through the back lote, or ou, Of
,he-way places about the business portion OF
the CITY, one eees now and then sights calcu-
lated to lower our estimate of the dignity OF
mankind Here will be gronD Of negroes
passing around ELK Of one X dispeusary
blue ruin Every chap drinks from the fl .sk !;
sociabil,y and good fellowship abound 's
they s,apd gaz,ng in thirsty anticipation OF
the coming dram which will get around If
the other fellows don't take extra big swal.
lows. Over yonder stands two or three or
more white men stimulating in the same way
.beir SIX feet of Drawn ard muscle Socis-
bili,y and good fellowship pervades group
No. 2 also Occasionally the crowd ls of
mixed complexion, and here. TOO, sociao'lity
and good fellowship. If that isn't social
equality ii approaches it very nearly HeAV-
ems! out bow The cursed stuff debases men
aod robs them of self.respect aud dignity aud
every other attribute of true nanllcess, made
IN the image of the Creator how that image
is mar, ed and efaced beyond recognition ny
a h bit which always itjures and never teoe'
ST,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-08-10
Good. Detective Work.

Caesar Jenkins. negro With one or two
aliases who is wanted at Ray, S c., was last
Thursday arrested on Main street by Depaty
Sheriff Gaillard and Assistant Chief of Police
Weeks
Sheriff Piersoa received letter which fully
described jenkins The letter wss shown to
Mr.. Weeks and very soon the officers had
their man spotted aod lodged in Jail, where
be ewaits the arrival OF some one With prop
er authority to take him to the scene of his
crime, which is not known here. jenkins is
an ordinary type of negro. but is we'll mark
ed when closely examined, having numerous
scars on different pa rs of his person and
peculiar squint Of one eye.
A reward of twenty-five dollsrs was Offer
ed for his capture Sumter is cot prom
ising city Of refuge for criminals.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-08-10
DO You Expect to Vote in the Pri
mary Election

If 80. sec to i, that Jour name is on the
Democratic club roll, as DO others wall be al.
lowed to vots The executive committee OF
the Sumter Club have appointed the follow
ing members to look after this important
matter: Nessrs. A. G. Flowers, 3. G. Moses,
J. NcClennaehan, G. ". Stansill. ]. W.
McKiever, W. W. Geddings, aud the Seere.
tary of the club, Sir H G. Osteen.
The committee will go 10 work immedi.
ately asd desires the cooperation of ell dem.
ocrats. See that your name is enrolled and
Sd ,gess any additions that can be made.
The time is getting short, and every club
should be up to the highest possible voting
streogtb.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-08-10
What; q Pity.

Caesar jenkins, the negro who was arrested
Thursday on lette- from Ray, :. c., has re-
gained lis liberty, ard left for other sceoes
Deputy Ga.lard wrote to the party who bad
requested the arrest; but getting no reply,
coocluded that they could not, or ought not.
hold the prisoner lorger without even know.
ing the charge against Dim
Saturday ef,ersocn telegram wss sent to
Superintendent Neal, asking il be koew any
thiog of the party. The aosver did not
come promptly and jenkins was released. 10
half an hour afterward telegram from Ar
Neal brought the information that be was
wanted, and tba, reward of Fifty dollars
would be paid for bis delivery at the peni,en-
tiary.
Since writing the above, Jenkins has beea
recsptured by Officers Weeks and Smith and
ia again behind the iron bars.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-08-10
Improvements at Davidson Col
lege.

The Executive Committee of Davidson
College has ordered the establishment Of a
complete system of water works, large enough
10 furnish abundant supply CT pure water
for drinking and sanitary purposes. and for
eqaippipg the Institution With modern bath
room convenience The water will also be
furnished to all the College boardiog houses,
and the town IS taking s'eps 10 Cooperate
With the College aod extend the system
throughout the corpora ton for the of all
the citizens
As it will require eight or ten weeks TO
bore the ecesssry srtesian wells aud pu' the
plap, 10 operation, number of small wells,
reaching to depth Of from 100 to $50 feet,
will be driven i'm nedia'ely, 80 as TO furnish
water of tested purity for The opening Of the
term in September.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-08-10
The Anti-Hog Ordinance.

The question of hogs or no hogs in Sum.
ter is getting TO be 'erestipg, and the ad.
vocates OF the anti.hog ordinance are being
citizens having the interest Of Sumter at
heart and who think it time for the City
Council to run the hogs out, while the only
persons who favor permitting Sumter to be
made stock ard and fever den are to be
found among those who raise hogs, uain.y.
The eyes of the people are upon G ty Coun-
Gil. With the exception Of few men
who have plenty of hard room and raise
hogs on large scale for the loca. market, the
anti-hog ordinance will affect financially only
a small portion OF our citizens, because the
large number OF caizeas who raise hogs on
a small scale know that Il does not pay, but
that the raising OF hogs is only habit under
the delusive idea that a hog is good scayen.
ger.
The health of the city will be better, and
70 hardships will be worked upon aoyoue ex-
cept few rich citizens who can ,sford to dis
pense with hog raising 10 the city.
The local physicians, with but possibly one
or two exceptions, agree that hogs are
sousce of sickness, no naattee whether in pens
or open lots.
Sumter 10 among the few, if not the only
city of it's size in the State, where hogs sre
raised in crowds Of Is to so head What
spectacle for q progressive city of $500 in-
babitsnts!
There is talk of getting up petition to
Council to show that body what the seDti-
ment of the majority of our people is.
Surely Council will necd no petition. and
it will not SET aside the wishes of q majority
in order that few men may make money at
the expense of health and comfort of the men,
women and children of Sumter.
This should not De permitted, and the citi-
zens expect Couocil 10 zee 10 it that the hogs
must 60
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-08-10
Reckoned Without His host.

There wss quite an exciting sequel to the
arrest of George Tindall On Sunday morn.
ing Mr. Bradford was in tr. China's drug
store. Peter Tlndall, brother of George,
entered and expressed an earnest desire for
private interview.
Together they retired to the rear OF the
store and Peter began to talk Of bis brother 8
case. After feeling his way carefully, be
finally said that be would raise twenty-five
dollars for Mr. Bradford if that officer would
make ii easy for George But Reb isn't that
kind of chap, and he replied by batting
Pete between the eyes and assisting hin 10
the sidewalk with his number mines. Pete
threatened TO raise a riot; but up 10 this
writing everything is quiet on the Potomac.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-08-10
Three Hundred span1ards Killed.

Three Hundred spanisrds Killed.
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3c0 days days, how many Americans will it
take to kill 100 Spauiards in 100 dsys? Ons
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