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Great Armies on the March.

From some of the descriptions the
newspaper correspondents have sent
home OF the United States army when
on the march in the Philippines, most
people may have an idea of the great
length of an army as it Is stretched
out on the road. Correspondents with
the British army in South Africa have
noticed the same thing, as one column
or another has advanced. One such
writer states that a single battalion of
infantry 1000 strong-which is the
strength Of an English battalion
takes up road length of SIS yards, in
GLIDING about eighty yards for stray
glers. A battalion of field artillery
takes up 260' yards, and regiment Of
cavalry takes up, when marching four
abreast, $50 yards. An army corps,
with its staff, wagons, guns, hospitals,
ETC., would extend over thirty-four
miles Of road. An army marches
slowly on the best of roads. 1t is much
more firing marching in crowd than
walking alone. Soldiers go at the rate
of about two and one-half or two and
three-quarter miles an hour, and in the
English army they do "a good days
march when they cover thirteen miles
This accounts for the fact that when
news is printed of an army marching
to attack surprise is expressed that the
attack is delayed so long. 1t takes
day or more for all the men to assem-
BILE on the battlefield The rates OF
march for the various arms differ, OF
course, but the fastest arm has to suit
its pace to the slowest. Here are the
English official rates: Infantry in
small bodies, three miles an hour; in
fantry in large bodies, two and a half
to two and three-quarter miles; cav
airy. walking, four miles; cavalry,
trotting. nine miles; cavalry, gallop-
ing fifteen miles, artillery, walking,
three miles; artillery, trotting, eight
miles In our army the average march
for infantry is from fifteen to twenty
miles a day. When troops move in
large bodies and particularly in the
vicinity of the enemy, the march is
conducted in several columns so as TO
diminish the depth of the column and
to expedite the deployment into line
of battle. In large commands the
roads, If possible. are left to the ar
tillery and trains. When long dis
tances have to be covered rapidly it
IS done by changing gaits. The most
favorable ground is selected for the
double time, but care is taken not to
exhaust the troops Immediately before
engaging the enemy.-Chicago Chron-
icle.
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NJ, JENATzY's RACING "PRoJEC TILE"

lines to the demon of speed is the
racing "projectile" of NJ. Jenatzy
(holder of the worlds automobile
kilometer record), an electric ma
chine constructed as the result Of
a wager that he could design and
build an electromobile capable Of
covering 100 kilometers within an
hour When it is remembered that
this means an equivalent of about
sixty-two miles an hour, this extreme
effort to minimize wind resistance is
apparently justified, as is the gentle
mans selection of an almost abso-
lutely level stretch of 100 kilometers
of smooth road between Evereux and
Lisieux, where the special trial will
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Hollands Youthful Sovereign.

Queen Wilhelmina is the idol of all
her Dutch subjects. The youthful SOW
ereign of Holland is very expert in all
the sports and pastimes that are popu-
lar in her country. She is splendid
skater, and drives with great grace her
Shetland ponies in the wood. Some
times she appears in public in the ma
tional costume of the Low Countries
with a priceless veil of lace. frontlet
of dead gold on the forehead, and a
row of heavy hanging jewels crossing
the temples.
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The Chattanooga Rebel.

Editor Atlanta Constitution-Mr.
Bennett errs in stating that the en-
tire outfit of the Chattanooga Rebel
was destroyed by Wilson's raiders in
March, 1865, at Selma, Ala. General
Wilson entered Selma on Sunday April
2, 1865, and while he pretty badly
wrecked the Rebel on the morning Of
his departure, April 10th, so far from
the destruction being entire, it was on
ly few hours until the Rebel was on
the streets, curtailed in proportions,
but at defiant as ever. The building
in which were located the two local
papers were burned with their con-
tents, and the Mississippian succeeded,
the night before the town was cap
tured, in getting it's entire plant trans
ferred to Meridian, Miss. The Rebel
was taken possession Of by the fed
erals and during their occupancy OF
the city they used it for whatever
printing they found necessary. On
the morning of their departure for
Montgomery, however a detail armed
with sledgehammers entered the build
ing and proceeded to smash the
presses, doing perfect work on every
thing except the proof press, which
they left unframed, except for demol-
ishing the wooden frame. Then all the
type cases, stands, paper, in fact, ev-
erything that would burn, was dumped
from third story window to the street
below; then bonfire was made in the
middle of the street, and that much OF
the Rebel was entirely destroyed. How
ever, the same fortune which saved the
proof press got in its good work by
causing the destroyers to overlook one
stand, two pairs of cases and a bundle
of paper. AS soon as the federals had
left, Charley Faxon got all the print
ers he could find together; he furnish
ed copy, the printers sailed into the
pied type on the sidewalk, and In a
few hours had out enough to get out
two-column editorial of the Rebel on
the proof press. was of the party but
left a few days after, and don't know
how long the publication was kept up,
but presume it lasted until the blank
paper gave out. Mr. Paul had left,
meanwhile, but returned afterwards,
and sold the wreck of the Rebel for
few hundred dollars, as was inform
ed at the time.-Ed. Guthrie.
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Convict InberIts $4,000.

Trenton On. j. correspondence Phil
adelphia Record: That "stone walls do
not prison make" is particularly APP
plicable in the case of George Wright,
of Camden, who has been confined in
the state prison here for nearly a year.
Although a prisoner, detained by the
state authorities, Wright considers
himself extremely fortunate, for he
has just received word that his aunt,
Mrs. Malioy, widow of Captain Mike
Malloy, Of Philadelphia, has died and
left him the sum of $4,000. Mrs. NAL
lows wealth amounts to s42 900, and
$4,000 is her convict nephew's share.
Wright has only another month to
serve.
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Thirty-Third Indiana.

washington special to the Indianap-
oils News: After years of painstaking
work. Capt. ]. r. Mcbride, who has
long been in the service of the govern
ment in Washington, has completed a
history of the Thirty-third Indiana
regiment. 1t has been a labor of love
with him, for he is a Hoosier, and
served with the organization from the
time It was formed until it was dis
banded. This regiment, commanded by
Col. Clate brigadier generaD John Co
burn. was recruited from the counties
OF central and southern Indiana. 1t
was made up largely from the agricul-
tural classes, and no finer body of
young men ever took up arms to serve
their country. The story of the regi-
ment's trials and vicissitudes.t the hard
ships endured in Kentucky, Ohio and
Tennessee, as we'll as in Libbey pris-
on: OF the capture of Atlanta, the tri-
umphant march with Sherman to the
sea, and finally the participation in
the grand review in Washington, Is
told by Capt Mcbride in graphic style.
To Hoosiers who had fathers or broth
ers in the gallant Thirty-third this his
tory will have deep and thrilling per-
sonal interest. One of the remarkable
facts brought out is that the regiment.
during the several years of its service
had enlistments agregating $500 men
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THAT PoMPoUs LAWYER.
How lie Caused Youthful Inventor to
Lose "a Fortune.

Lose Fortune.
"Apropos of Inventions" said a
New Orleans lawyer who does a good
deal of patent office business, "I'll tell
you a curious little story, which is
absolutely true and has never seen
print. Nearly a quarter of a century
ago a 12-year-old boy was watching
the moving of heavy piece of fur
niture at his hons in this city, when
it occurred to hfm that the castors
upon which it relied were very clumsy
contrivances and might be improved
He was a bright boy, with taste for
mechanics and drawing, and, turn
hit on the scheme Of using a metal
ball instead of a wheel. 1.-The ball"
he argued, could turn in any direction
in socket, and would be a great i'm
provement over the old-fashioned cas-
tor. So he proceeded to make draw
ing of the device and showed it his
father, who thought so we'll OF it that
he went to see a lawyer with a view
of having it patented. The lawyer
was an eminent man in his profession
and an advocate of great ability, but
he knew nothing whatever of me-
chanics, and when he looked at the
drawing the thing struck him as be-
ing impracticable. Why, this will
never work in the world he said.
The pressure on top of the ball
would keep it from turning II he
had stopped to think he might have
realized that the same argument
could be applied to the axle Of
wheel, but his off-hand opinion nipped
the patent in the bud; the father told
the son that the plan wasn't feasible.
That ended it, and four or five years
later some fellow in England patent
ed exactly the same idea and proceed
ed to make a huge fortune. The de-
vice which the boy originally thought
out is known as the 'ball-bearing' and
is unquestionably one of the greatest
and most useful inventions of the age,
1t is employed in everything, from
bicycles to 12-inch gun mounts. The
lawyer who said it wouldn't work is
now dead, and the boy himself is a
clerk at perhaps $1,000 a year. He
still has the drawing, and showed it
to me only the other day. Or
leans Times-Democrat.
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SERVANTS IN SOUTH AFRICA.
The Raw Zulu Fresh from His Native
Kraal Is Best.

The Raw Zulu Fresh from His Native
Kraal Is Best.
Only rich people can afford to keep
white servants in South Africa All
ordinary folk, says a contributor to
the London Mail, have to be content
with the well-meant, If casual, minis
trations of the native "house-boy."
The best of all servants is Zulu,
especially If he is raw, that is, if he is
fresh from his native kraal and totally
unspoiled by the wiles of civilization.
Such a boy is honest, sober, quick,
clean and anxious to learn the ways
OF the "umlungu," or white man. He
soon becomes as def as an English
butler, and as handy as the ideal
housemaid. He does everything, from
cooking to answering the door, and
after a little practice he does 1t well.
His knowledge of English at first is
scanty, but he soon picks up a few
words and mixes us Kafir. Dutch and
English in a quaint polyglot dialect.
When they are new to their work the
boys make funny mistakes. A lady
once had a good but raw boy who did
not understand the etiquette of visit
ing cards. Three visitors called. Two
Of them gave the boy their cards;
the third did not happen to have one
with her. The boy ushered the first
two into the drawing room, but kept
the third waiting in the hall, saying,
Two misses got ticket. You no got
ticket, you wait outside" The boys
have all manner of strange names,
usually chosen by themselves from
some one or other OF the words that
they hear often used, such as Sixpence,
Hickey" (three-penny piece, Shilling,
Breakfast, Kettle. silly Fool Ugly,
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Duke sergius' Record.

Grand Duke Sergius, who repre-
scented the Car Of Russia at the fes-
tivities of the German crown prince
in Berlin. is the uncle of Emperor
Nicholas. He was born May II, 1857,
and was married in 1884 to Princess
Elizabeth of Hesse Darmstadt. In his
capacity as Governor of Moscow Ser
gius has made himself one of the
most unpopular men in Russia. The
people held him responsible for the
awful disaster at the cars coronation
in 1896, when thousands of people
were killed through faulty arrange
ments in handling the crowd
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Death Of Famous soldier.

Major w. c. d. Gillespie, River For
est, ILL.,, who died recently of paralysis,
was a great soldier. Major Gillespie
was born in New Orleans in 1914. At
the outbreak of the civil war he enlist
ed with the One Hundred and Six
teenth New York infantry and served
three years He married Miss Amelia
Yout of Racine, Wis. in 1868, and took
up his residence in Chicago He be-
came we'll known as a mechanical en-
gineer and was a member OF the Tech
nical club, the Robert Fulton Society
of Engineers, Phil Sheridan Post No.
615, G.. A. r., and the Masonic frater-
nifty. Mrs. Gillespie and one con
George H., survive.
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ARTILLERY Prnch.'

No one who has ever enjoyed the
hospitality of the Ancient Savannah
Artillery was surprised to hear that
it was too much even for our gallant
Admiral Dewey. 1t was too much fr
President Arthur when he made his
famous visit to the Garden City OF
Georgia, and it has been too much
for every Northern visitor who has
been the recipient Of the courtesies of
this famous Southern club, says Les
lies Weekly. The Savannah Artillery
is the second oldest military associa-
ton in the United States, Boston hav-
ing the first. Hon. John e. Ward, now
of New Jersey, was its former captain,
and he will be remembered especially
as chairman of the convention at
which Buchanan was nominated for
the presidency. A popularity OF the
entertainments provided by this mill
tary organization is punch known as
the ARTILLERY" punch. 1t is a seduct-
i've mixture of brandy and champagne,
served as cold as ice, with a few
strawberries serenely floating about
the top. In its workings on the inner
man it is the most insidious, deceptive
and entangling concoction ever labeled
with the name of punch. The mere
fact that Admiral Dewey was indis
posed after visit to the Savannah Ar
tillery, therefore, need not occasion
surprise.-Atlanta Constitution.
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inently mentioned as one of the
French representatives in next
summers international races and
has been the adversary Of M.
Jenatzy in many contests in
years past. In this machine the
effort to minimize wind resistance
has not been carried to the lengths
that it has in the "projectile," prob
ably owing to the designers unwilling
ness to decrease the size of the space
devoted to the batteries and motor.
The motor is a very powerful one
and despite the fact of its being heav-
Ter, the vehicle is said to be the equal
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in every way of M. Jenatzy's machine.
Still another peculiar looking We
hicle devoted solely to fast work is
that of NJ. De Paiva shown herewith.
"Windplows" in front and a glass
shield set an an angle, behind which
the operator may comfortably observe
the road before him, are two features
which will result in an addition of
speed, If not of beauty to the vehicle,
which is of the electric variety, and,
although quite heavy is very power
full.
The racing machine of NJ Charron
Quilt by the Panhard company, who
will be one of the three representa-
tives of the Automobile Club de
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the largest infantry regiment sent
from Indiana Only a surviving veteran
like Capt. Mcbride, situated in Wash
ington and having access to the war
records could have succeeded in MAX
ing so complete q history OF the regl-
ment. The most difficult task was to
secure the full and accurate roster,
but he succeeded in this, and the his
tory will contain the names of all off,
GERS and enlisted men, with their rec
ords as soldiers; names of those killed
and wounded, and those who died of
wounds and disease. The farewell adj
dress to the regiment, made by Gen.
Coburn at Atlanta, is feature of the
history, which also contains official
dispatches bearing upon the battles in
which the regiment took part. and is
interspersed with anecdotes that will
be read with zest by the few survivors.
The manuscript has been read by Gen.
Coburn, who gives it his warmest COM
mendation. 1t will make a book of
about 300 pages, and the distribution
will be through a committee in Indi-
ana, of which Capt. Charles Seaton Of
Martinsville is the head. Capt. Nc
Bride has given his labor free-a labor
extending over a period Of several
years-and has thus earned the lasting
gratitude of the surviving members OF
the gallant Thirty-third. 1t is an ex-
ceptionally well-written history and
bears evidence on every page Of the
ability and painstaking care of the
author
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WAS TOO LITTLE DEBATE.
Senator Green's Opinion of the Episcopal
Church Service.

Senator Green's Opinion of the Episcopal
Church Service.
Congressman Hit tells the follow
ing story of Benton's most formidable
opponent, Senator James Stephen
Green: Senator Green" said Mr.
Hit, was not only a man of splendid
genius, but also of charming manner.
He boarded at tho National hotel,
where he was popular with men and
women. The latter found out that the
senator was not much of a church.
goer and insisted that he should mend
his ways in that regard. One Sunday
he was late for dinner. The women
asked him why. L have been attend
ing divine worship replied the sena-
tor gravely. TO what church did you
go, senator?' asked a woman. I don't
know answered the courtly Missou-
rian. Who preached?' they asked. L
don't know he said. L walked up
the avenue, turned up Fourth street
and entered a church on the lefthand
side This was an Episcopal church.
How did you like the services?' asked
another woman. 1t appeared to me,
answered the senator, that there was
too much reading of the journal and
too little debate Chicago Chroni-
Gle.
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SOME WIND-SPLITTING "MOBES."

pearance has not been sacri-
feed to speed 1t is COM
Portable and steady running, and has
carried its fearless owner to the front
mainly by its ability to stand long
continued strains without succumb-
ing.
One of the most powerful racing
vehicles which has yet made its ap-
pearance in the French automobile
contests is the Vallee, an illustration
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United states Public Lands.

The public lands vacant and subject
to entry and settlement in North Da-
kota on July 1, 1898, were: Surveyed
land, II, 717.27s acres; unsurveyed land
1857, 1896 acres. In Ohio, IL any public
land remains, it consists of a few
small isolated tracts. There are land
offices in North Dakota at Bismarck,
Devils Lake, Fargo, Grand Forks and
Minot.
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The Automobile Age Seems to Be
i'm Full Blast.

The speed contests for the automo-
bile blue ribbon, which will take place
over the French roads about Paris this
summer, has set the motor-racing
world by the ears, the foreign enthus-
lasts especially going to apparently
unlimited expense in their efforts to
secure what is likely to prove a win
ming machine. In an article upon this
sport Of millionalres," which recently
appeared in The Automobile Maya
zine, the statement is made that speed
in an automobile depends not alone
upon the development Of great horse
power, as asserted by some, nor upon
the size OF the driving wheels, as as
serted by others (who point to the
huge drivers on the modern passenger
locomotive in support of their state
ment), but upon a combination of five
factors, the absence of any one of
which in the makeup of vehicle de-
signed primarily for speed might re-
suit in its defeat in long-distance
contest. These five conditions are 81
the horse power of the motor; CD the
number of revolutions made by the
motor; CD the weight Of a vehicle;
(D the gearing; (5) construction of
the moving parts, as we'll as of the en-
tire carriage, in order to reduce fric-
ton and wind resistance as much as
possible.
The apparently interminable search
for the happy medium, where great
power will not necessitate correspond
ingly and perhaps, fatally great
weight and size, combined with the
efforts to reduce wind resistance to a
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LIVES INSURED FOR CHURCH..
New Plan for Raising Religious Funds
Adopted i'm Philadelphia.

New Plan for Raising Religious Funds
Adopted in Philadelphia.
The intrepid insurance agent has in
vaded the sacred precincts of st. Marks
Protestant Episcopal Church. The
commercial complexion of the newest
plan for raising church funds has
aroused considerable interest in the
most fashionable parish in Philadel-
phia. To procure money for church
work, DR.. Mortimer, the rector, In con-
junction with several members of the
congregation, has been considering a
scheme of insuring the lives of a num-
Der of wealthy communicates for the
benefit of the church. The plan origi-
mated in the resourceful intellect of a.
society woman who ekes out her pin
money by writing policies" among
the residents of Philadelphia's Eau
bourg st. German. 1t was proposed
to the heads of st. Marks that some
Of the wealthy supporters of the church
should insure their lives on the en-
dowment plan, and that the church
should be the beneficiary named in the
policy. This would give prospective
fund of good proportions and would
be splendid collateral for borrowing
purposes. The members of the church
taking out the insurance would, of
course, pay the annual premiums. AS
the policies matured the proceeds
would be paid over to the church.
This plan is not entirely new. but this
is probably the first time that it has
been proposed to a church of the char
acter and standing OF st. Marks
Philadelphia Bulletin.
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Great Lengths OF wire.

There are 100000 miles of copper
wire used in telephone service in the
United States, and 100000 calls are
received daily in the telephone ex-
changes of the country. The wire
would girdle the earth at the equator
forty-eight times. or reach from the
earth to the moon five times.
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minimum, have re-
suited in the build
ing of some very
curious examples
of automobiles,
many of which are
almost absolutely
useless except for
the purpose for
which they were
designed - high
speed-and they
cannot consistent
ly be classed under
the head of pleas
ure vehicles.
Pro b ably the
most fragrant eX-
ample of this sac
rlHnn Of hnantu
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France in the in
ternational races,
is shown in the ac-
companying illus
tration. NJ. Char
ron is one of the
most fearless
"chauffeurs" in
France. and among
his many note
worthy perform
ances may be men
toned the Marseil-
les-Nice in 1898,
the Paris-Amster-
dam in the same
wear and the Paris
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-Four miners were entombed for
twelve days in the Matsuyasu colliery
in Japan lately They did without food
all the time and for most Of the time
without light, and we're none the worse
when dug out.
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Pint Pot, Scrubber, Chopper or
Whiskey. OF course they have their
own tribal names, but they never use
them in white mems houses, and if
none of the aforementioned common
objects serves to provide an appella-
ton, the boy is usually Jim, Charley
or John.
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operator may be so
arranged as to per-
nit of his assum-
ing such a position
as will keep almost
his entire body
well within the
"bowels" of the
projectile, thus still
further reducing
the wind resist
ance.
Another vehicle,
the primary con-
sideration in the
construction of
which was speed,
is that of Count
Chasseloup - Lou
bat, who was prom
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Hard In Deliver

Canadian school children have sent
their sympathy to Aguinaldo. But
how will they get it to him?-Louis-
vile Courier Journal.
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CAMPFIRE SKETCHES.
GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR THE
VETERANS.

Great Armies on the interchangeable
Indiana - The Chattanooga Rebel
Artillery Punch - Death OF a Famous
Soldier.
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II is pretty certain that people are
never really as miserable as they think
they are
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Bordeaux in 1890. The peculiar virtue
of M. Charron's flyer is that, unlike
most other racing vehicles, ap-
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away within the body of the projectile.
the only thing in evidence being the
necessary gearing. The seat OF the
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CHARooN AND HIS VEHICLE.

probably be made. An examination
Of the illustration shows that the bat
teries and the motor have been stored