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Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-12

the motor as II Journeys zenith

rounds the MOTOR as It journeys zenith
ward. hooi
In its natural condition and by mere ex-
pansion liquid air is forty times more pow
erful than stoarh, twenty times more power
full under ordinary conditions than any ex-
plosive now known. a thousand per cent
safer to handle than steam or electricity.
Indeed, 1t is claimed that more can be ac-
complished with II than with electricity;
that the latter power becomes a secondary
one when liquid air is made use of.
From San Francisco to Barbados the bat
tleship Oregon occupied sixty-eight days
the distance being 1000 miles. with liquid
air as the motive power the time occupied
would have been thirty-scven days. The
amount OF coal consumed by the Oregon
In this trip was 27,200 tons. With liquid
air the amount used would have been 800
tons. The cost of the coal used was $40, 800;
with liquid air 1t would have been $40, 200.
In other words, the government would have
saved $50, 900 and avoided the use OF over
10000 tons of coal IL liquid air had been the
motive power of the Oregon. Greater ad-
vantage than this, though, would have been
the fact that the journey would have been
made in thirty-one days less time than was
consumed. Put 1t in another way, the Ore
gon would have been OFF Key West on
April %, the day war was declared. in
stead of reaching there May %, one month
later.
No secret is involved in the process of
producing liquid air, and, its cost being
comparatively slight it appears to be at
easy command for the commercial as we'll
as the military world. In its potency 1t
very much resembles compressed air, al
though far cheaper of production. Com
pressed air, when at a temperature of over
100 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit, will
reduce an iron bar to molten drops, and if
the temperature is reduced to 200 degrees
will vaporize the iron.
Liquid air may be bottled and carried
around in your pocket, provided you incase
tho bottle in another and have a vacuum
between the two. Otherwise you will find a
large block of ice in your pocket, which. If
you touch it, Will severely burn you. You
may take a coffee cup and pour liquid air
into it. Boiling and sizzling the air in
cases the cup with ice. Insert a steel wire
in this and it will be consumed. Pour
water in and more ice will be formed. Put
a flame under the cup and ice forms on the
bottom.
Liquid air is a denial and an assertion,
a paradox, a contradiction and an aflirma-
ton, as simply produced as water. as easily
controlled as a child, as dangerous as any
force known, more useful when properly APP
piled than any power now at the service of
man. a teaspoonful may be used to destroy
a city or to furnish the energy by which
a thousand engines may be driven.
The discovery of its properties is an
American scientific triumph unequaled by
even the revelation of electricity's potency
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OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Alexander Belleville Of East st. Louis. ILL.,.
has Just buried his seventh wife,
A silk factory in which only women are
employed has been opened in a suburb OF
London.
The yearly premium Of George w. Wander
bits life insurance for 81 ,OOO.O 600. taken out
just before his marriage, amounts to S35.OOo.
A gold weighing machine in the Bank OF
England is so sensitive that a postage stamp
dropped on the scale will turn the index ON
the dial a distance of two inches.
The last example of a yellow journalist
comes from San Francisco. where Mum Shu'
editor of q Chinese paper, has opened a sub
scription for the Red Cross society among
his countrymen and Is booming II and his
circulation in the columns OF his paper.
While congress was dlsputing over the
presidents war message, MRS. DAVIS, wire OF
the senator, took a kodak into the senate
gallery, although il was against the rules,
and secured the4only photograph in existence
of some highly exciting scenes
The state of Maryland is to pay $4,000 for
f.. b.. Mayors painting or the burning OF
the Peggy Stewart" The picture is to be
hung in the hhllnof the House OF Delegates
with a tablet, giving the history OF the de-
struction of the tea-laden British brig in
October. TIA.
A Kentucky woman, whose maiden name
was Alvina Jackson. recently buried her sey-
enth husband. The dear departed all lie in
a row in the cemetery at bolivar, ana the
many-times widow has erected a monument
to the whole lot. 1t consists OF a marble
hand with the index finger pointing upward.
On the base. instead OF the usual names.
dates, ages, etc, are the two words. Seven
Up"
In Japan hods are not used for carrying
mortar. Instead. the method Is TO make IT
into balls and SO transport II TO its destina-
ton. The mortar is mixed In a pile on the
ground and one man makes II into balls
weighing about six pounds. which he losses
to another man standing half way up the
building on a ladder, and he in his turn
throws ii to a man on the roof. supposing
II TO be the roof which is the scene OF action.
1t has lust been discovered that a member
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American stoves go to China.
Holland buys American copper.
China buys Alabama pig iron.
Compressed air runs a Maine sawmill.
We make 5000. 900 false teeth annually.
A well known New York firm is exporting
large quantities OF mining apparatus to
Australia.
Inc work OF constructing n huge raft,
which Is to contain 1000, 900 feet OF lum-
Der has been begun in Portland, ore.
Recent exports of electrical machinery
IRON New York to Holland. Mexico. London
and Argentina were valued at $50. 900.
The value of all the gold. silver. copper.
iron, coal and lead mined every year in
America is exceeded by the products OF the
forests.
a steamer was cleared from Boston for
monmouth, England, recently, including in
cargo Sl2 packages paper, 5l4 packages wood
pulp SIX packages soda ash, 500 doors and
S,42l packages leather.
The total exports OF green and dried APP
pies from the United States last year
amounted in value TO SO, 200. 900. or these
apples only S7SS, 900 worth went to Germany.
Great Britain took so, 169, 900 worth. A very
smali portion of the total exports In other
articles of fruit was sent to Germany, Great
Britain taking by far the larger part.
An American syndicate has received i'm
perial authority in China to construct n
railroad from Hankow to Canton, n dis
lance of 900 miles, through a region con-
tanning 1000, 900 inhabitants. The company
VIII buy $50 locomotives, 1000 cars and an
immense amount OF material in this coun-
try. American Industries are becoming
quite cosmopolitan.
Last year China took 81, 4S6, 900 out OF a
total export of Sl7, PSI 600, or almost half
OF all our cotton cloths shipped abroad. The
Chinese, especially those of Manchuria, pre-
fer the American drills and sheetings, as
they are heavier. The great bulk of these
cottons are shipped from the New England
mills to New York, and then via the Suez
canal But there has been quite recently Il
remarkable increase of shipment from the
west by way of San Francisco and Puget
sound The export of American kerosene
oil to China now ranks second in Importance
to that of cotton goods.
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with which to purchase their uniforms, etc.
Their pay amounts to $500 a year which is
sufficient to clothe and board them during
the four years in the academy and the two
at sea and in addition to accumulate a fund
of several hundred dollars for equipment
purposes II they are able to enter the service
permanently.
The new cadet is a cadet in the eye of
the law only. He is put in the fourth, or
lowest class, which Is all right; but almost
before he has got his uniform on. his SUI
periors, that Is. the members of the three
classes above him. at once take him in hand
and begin to make him realize his utter
insignifcance. To them he is, at first, a
beast who is to be licked into shape by
traditional processes, sometimes physically
severe. This is known as ''hazing." To
"kick" against it would be idle. The only
effect would be to increase the punishment
which must be submitted to If the victim
means to remain in the academy. But, as
a rule. the "hazing'' Is good natured and
rarely carried to an extreme point. That,
II discovered by the officers, as 1t could
hardly fail to be, would be sternly punished.
Hazing In moderation is more than toler-
ated, for II is regarded as a good disciplin-
airy operation, proving the STUFF" that is in
the embryo officer. Then, there is one thing
to look forward to, namely, the end of the
agony as soon as the first year comes to a
close. The beast" and ''plebe' condition
OF serfdom Is then over, the emancipated
ones being elevated TO the dignity of
"youngsters.' who can obtain their revenge
by lording IT over those that succeed them
In the new fourth class.
Course of study.
While the entrance examination standard
is low, the knowledge and proficiency de-
manded from the cadets through the entire
four years course are higher than are those
required In any other technical college in
the country. The academic stan consists
of seventy or eighty officers. who conduct
the work OF Instruction, which is divided
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VIII carry of the odor of tobacco, SO that il
cannot be detected by some yigiiant officer.
The chaplain Is irreyerently called holy
joe" Jimmy Legs" is "the master-at-
arms" Sec the secretary of the navy"
and ''supe' the superintendent" OF the
academy, always an officer of high rank.
The christmas tree is a list of cadets
posted in December. who are in danger of
being dropped at the coming examinations
In January. and 1.-The Maypole" is a similar
list posted in May, prior TO the June ex-
aminations. A cadet in either of these
lists is ION the tree "Spooning" means
'associating with the fair SEX ITO spoou''
on a "plebe," the term for a cadet in the
lowest class. is to befriend him, and to
spoon on an inanimate object is to ad-
mire 1t. A cadet who has been one year
at the academy becomes a "youngster' dur
ing the second year. when he is a third
class man, ITO Dull the Doctors leg is TO
get on the sick list when not III; the daily
conduct report Is pap" and the regulation
book is the "Plebe's bible" A complete
list of the academy's slang phrases would
I'LL over a column.
While cadet life is. as a rule, strict and
even harsh. II is not without It's compen-
sations. A little world in itself, the on
GERS families at the academy are delightful
entertainers and they all have their favor
ties among the cadets to whom their houses
are ever open. Then there are the acad-
envy hops which are attended by Young
women from Annapolis. Baltimore, Wash
ington and visitors from all parts of the
country. These hops" are really part of a
cadets education, intended to 1T him for
any social function TO which as an officer
he may be hidden. Uncle Sam wisely in
sists that the men who man his ships shall
be not only first class officers, but accom-
word.
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THE nr eUAr-
Mrs. Hnwlnnh

@'Nt
All quiet along the Potomac" they saw.
EXCEPT now and then a stray picket
Is shot, as he walks on his beat, to ana
BY a rincman hid in tho thicket.
lis nothlhsi a private or two, now and
VIII not count In the news of the battle:
Not an officer lost--only one of the men
Moaning out, all alone, the death rattle
All quiet along the Potomac tonight.
Where the soldiers lie peacefully dream
Ing.
Their tents in the rays OF the clear au-
tumn moon,
Or the light OF the watch-h fires cleaning.
A tremulous sigh as the gentle night
Through the forest leaves softly is creep
While stars up above, with their glittcrlng
eyes,
Keep guard-for the army is sleeping.
There's only the sound of the lone scntry's
As he tromps from the rock to the foun-
And he thinks of the two in the low trun-
Far away in the cot on the mountain.
His mnsket falls slack; has face, dark and
Grows gentle with memories tender,
As he ,mutters "A prayer for the children
For their mother-may heaven defend
heri
Tho moon seems to shine just as brightly
Us NhNAH
That night when the love yet unspokcn
Leaped up to his lips-when low,
vows
Were pledged to be ever unbrokcn;
Then drawing his sleeve roughly over his
eyes,
He dashcs off tears that arc yelling,
And gathers his gun closer up to its place,
n. If to keep down the h~cart-swclling.
lie passes the fountain, the blasted pine
tree
The footstcp Is tagging and weary;
Yet onward he goes through the broad belt
of light,
Toward the shades of the forest so
drcury.
Harkl was it the night wind that rustled
the leaves?
Was it moonlight so wondrously flash
ing?
1t looked like n rifle; "Ha! Mary, good-by!"
And the life-blood is cbbing and FLASHING. =
All quiet along the Potomac tonight
No sound save the rush of the river;
While soft falls the dew on the face of the
dead
The picket's off duty forever.
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into ten or eleven departments. embracing
seamanship. naval tactics and naval con-
structior. astronomy. navigation and sur
veying. steam engineering, mathematics,
applied mathematics and mechanics, physics
and chemistry, history, international law,
Spanish and French. mechanical drawing,
and physiology and hygiene.
Added 10 these branches is the purely ~ J.
fessional part Of the course. comprising in
structions for infantry and artillery; $, hYols
Of the squad. company. battalion aud brig
ade, strcet-riot drill. ceremonies, etc. Guu-
merry embraces the distribution OF the crcw
to the guns with all the drills incident
thereto; the study OF guns and the metals
used in their construction, the laws Of con-
bustion OF gunpowdCr, penetration of Pre-.
j%ectiles, armor in all is various phases and
forms. ranges, torpedcr'a, marine pines
the bare catalogue of studios Is IN fact be-
wildering to the lay mind. All this. 1t
should be remembered. is not nero theory.
From first to last every principle must he
practically applied by the cadet. for the
academy, IL it is anything, is a school of
application; one of the tirsJ. ii not the very
nrst, established In the United States.
At Annapolis the theory Of the survival
of the fttest becomes a positive law. The
weeding-out process is H. ceaseless opera
ton. For example, so per cent Of the appli-
cants fail to get in at all. At the end of the
first year, forty will probably have been
dropped from a fourth class of 100, and of the
remaining sixty not more than thirty five
probably will be graduated three years
later. All the others will have fallen by
the way, or, giving up the struggle, have
! resigned. A cadet is liable TO fail at any
of the four annual, or the eight semi-an-
nual examinations. Class-standing is gov
erned by a rigid system of marking az the
monthly, semi. annual, and annual eXami-
nations. The highest mark is 10. The
minimum mark of proficiency is 30. and a
cadet whose final average for the term. or
Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-12

The women teachers of London are aroused
by a Just grievance and have presented to
the school board of that city a memorial with
regard to the proposed increase of salaries
OF assistant masters, the objection being
that the salaries of the mistresses las they
say IN England) are to remain as they are.
Inc memorial points out the fact that at
present the maximum salaries paid to as
sistant masters amounts to $3.50 a year more
than those paid to women doing similar
work and these women therefore petition
that the maximulns be made equal. The
memorial, signed by 1,1O3 women teachers.
has been referred to the school managing
committee.
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Of th6 AtchIsnn' lKansasl MnnIolnnl hand.

OF the Atchison' (Kansas) Municipal band.
who has been supposed to be playing the
bussoon for the last Ave years. has been sim
ply drawing HIS breath with the proper mo-
lions and, of course, his pay. and blowing
the former through his instrument without
making a sound. In Ave years he has not
learned to play n note.
Frank twain OF Bridgeport, Mass, en-
ployed as an electrician at the power house
of the street railway company. while repair
ing some machinery received q severe shock
from an electric current. From that time
until midnight he suffered intense pain, but
when the power was shut of at the power
house the pain disappeared. At ) O'Clock the
next morning, when the power was again
started at the power house, the pain re-
turned
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TOLD OUT OF COURT.

'Gentlemen of the jury" said the prose-
cutor in a Washington case, I'VE will show
you that at 2:25 in the morning of the 3Ott
day of October, A. D., 1897, the defendant
got up from his bed, took a two-quart tin
pail, and went to a saloon where he got II
hlled with beer, and this, gentlemen, we
VIII show you by competent evidence is
what is commonly known as rushing the
growler.'"
The collection of cases with suggestive
titles grows apace. Since our last issue the
following cases have been called to our at
%tention: Guess against Amis, "a Ark. /;
Locke against Smith, 10 Johns IN. W $50.
Sick against Aid Association, 40 Mich. 80:
Crews against Sheets, 4 Blackf. Qnd.) 275;
Just against Wise, 447 Mich. 511; Eve
against Eye, 8 Watts (Pa.) 1879; Mitten
against Smock, 3 N. j. l.. 40; Pocket
against Pool, II, Manitoba, 279. An old
case with a very considerable present sig
nihcance is Fitzhugh against Lee. Ambl.
(Eng. CHI 65. A correspondent sends us
a recent Iowa case, Goldberg against Silver
berg, and wishes to know if the defendants
chances are sixteen to one.
The Boston Record %narrates an incident
which occurred when Associate Justice GRAY
of the United States supreme court was
chief justice of the Massachusetts court.
One of the savings banks which had sus-
pended was before the court and the ques-
ton was in reference to the appointment of
a receiver. The gentleman whose name was
proposed rejoiced in one of those triple
jointed names which were never liked by
Judge Gray. In filling out the decree Judge
Gray wrote: LET - - - Smith
act as receiver" Then turning the decree
over to the counsel he said: "You may
fill in the rest of the alphabet"
A correspondent sends from Alabama an
account of an amusing incident which re-
Gently occurred in a Birmingham court.
+. S. White, esq, had introduced a negro
witness for the plaintiff, whose testimony
on the direct examination was of a kind
calculated to fill the plaintiff with great joy.
When, however, Hon. j. e. Webb began
the ross-examination the witness exhibited
symptoms of uneasiness, and, being unable
to meet the eagle eye of the attorney for
the defense, fixed his gaze on some far
distant portion Of space. The attorney, see
Ing his advantage and wishing to pursue
it, rose from his seat and said in a sharp
tone: Look at me, sir, look at me-"
Il object, your honor" cried the attorney
for the plaintiff.
What, sir said the court, "is the ground
of your objection"
"Why, you honor he replied, sit is con-
trary to law and humanity to torture a
Witness"
1t is not stated whether the objection
was sustained, but, at any rate, the re-
freshments were on Mr.. Webb.
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While the war is a damage to business in
general, there are some branches which
find their advantage in it. A Rockville,
Conn. silk mill, for instance, has rush
orders for months to come manufacturing
sewing silk for the government.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-12

ThS nest Liniment for Hhcumntism.
Mr.. p. Ketcham of Pike City. Cal, says:
During my brothers late sickness from
sciatic rheumatism, Chamberlain's Pain
Balm was the only remedy that gives hi,
any relief" Many others have testified
the prompt relief from pain which thi
liniment affords.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-12

A bottle OF Cooks Imperial Extra Dry
Champagne with your dinner makes it COM
plete. II pieases every Qua
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LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

time Is spent in hunting. of which he is stiil
very fond.
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some of Its Possibilities

In aerial machines liquid air could be used
for propulsion. The boilers TO be used might
be made OF paper. Aluminium could be used
for coils and other parts of the mechanism
To so make use of this product only the in
vention of a proper aerial motor is neees-
sary. and that should be a secondary matter,
since the power is at hand, having but to be
drawn and taken from the air which sur
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1898-06-18

unconoernedly as though at target
practice.
Very few spaniards were in sight.
They were lying behind the huts and
in the bush, but the puffs Of smoke re-
vealed their positions and enabled tho
Americans to do effective work. For
20 minutes both sides maintained a ter.
rife fire. The Spanish shots were gen.
orally wild and spasmodio, while the
Americans ooolly fired away,
Aiming Carefully and Shooting to Kill.
For the most part the Americans firing
was done individually, but at times the
officers would direct firing by squads,
always with telling effect. As the
Spanish retreated the Americans moved
slowly forward, firing as they went,
and by the time the camp was reached
the enemy had all got away, taking
their wounded and probably many Of
their dead. Fifteen bodies were found
scattered through the brush. No time
time was lost in burning the buildings
and filing the well with earth and
stones.
The Dolphin landed water and am.
munition a. an attack was expected on
the return march, but none was made.
Colonel Huntington believes the de-
struotion Of the camp and well will se.
riously cripple the bushwhacking oper.
ations Of the enemy.
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TO END ACL CONTESTS.

Provision in tho Sundry Civil Bill Relat-
ing to Northern Pacific Lands.
WARRINGTON, June 10.-That portion
of the report of the conference com.
mittee on the sundry civil appropria'
ton bill adopted by both houses of
congress contains new paragraph
framed by the eonferees providing a
way of settlement of all controversies
between settlers on the public lands
and the Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany, successor in ownership Of the
land grant Of the Northern Pacific
Railroad company. These cases in the
courts and the department already
number many thousand and have been
the cause of much irritation and hard.
ship to tho settlers. The act applies to
the future as well as the past and pro.
vides that the Northern Pacific Rail-
way company may abandon all the
lands to which it's right is disputed by
settlers and take in lieu other public
lands situated in any state through
which the road runs, whereupon clear
title shall vest in the settler. The same
privilege to abandon the contested land
is accorded to the settler. It is asserted
that this legislation will quiet 10000
titles in the states Of Wisconsin,, MIN.
nesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho,
Oregon and Washington.
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OFF FOR SANTIAGO.

Skaters Army Of Over Fifteen Thousand
Mon Sails From Key West.
WASHINGTON, June 14.-The first
army of invasion to Cuba is now well
on it's way, 80 transport ships, making
over $1,000 officers and men, conveyed
by battleships, cruisers, gunboats and
auxiliary cruisers, 16 in number, hav-
ing actually sailed from Key West at
daybreak Monday morning. An au'
thoritative statement to this effect was
made at the war departm ent, setting
at rest all reports that the expedition
was on it's way or had landed last
week. The authorities made the an
nouncement for the reason that the
time for secrecy was now past, as
the scout boats had made sure that the
path was clear before it and that no
possible menace could come from the
Spanish Ships or Troops
even If they should know our forces
were advancing against them. With
the expedition off officials here feel
that there will be period Of compare
tive inaction for a few days. BY
Thursday at the latest the transports
will be off Santiago and a large army
will make it's landing on Cuban soil.
Sampson has cleared the way for this
undertaking and little danger is appre-
hended in getting ashore. It will be
after THAT, when the advance is made.
that actual dramatic Developments
may be expected. By that time it il
likely the American commanders will
be in direct cable communication with
the authorities here. Admiral Samp'
son has taken the shore end OF the
cable landing at Guantanamo and
force Of cable experts are rapidly re
utorin0 the line to working order.