Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1906-08-10
NIGHT CHANGED TO DAY.
Wonderful SearChlight Drill to be
Seen at the jamestown EXPOSE
ton Next Year.

ton Next Year.
Poking their long fingers of light
into every corner of Hampton roads,
and illuminating every detail of
cloudland, searchlights will make
night as bright as day during the
jamestown Exposition, which is to be
held next year at SewelI's Point, near
Norfolk, Va.
Just across Hampton roads from
Sewell's Point is Fortress Monroe,
which is equipped with powerful
searchlights, by means of which a
newspaper can be read five miles
away. Every warship at the Naval
Rendezvous next year will also have
searchlights, some of which are so
powerful as to require special engine
to generate their electricity. Among
the largest of these is that just sup
piled to the new battleship, Con-
necticut. The lens of this searchllght
is more than five feet across. When
the maximum power is being used the
ligths have an intensity of sixty thou
sand candle power, and its rays can
be thrown several miles.
Searchlights we're originally adopted
to find torpedo boats at night. They
ale now used for signalling, to dis
cover a man overheard, to aid naViga
ton, and for many other purposes.
When man falls overheard from one
of the great ships at sea, the search
light is at once turned upon him,
and the ray is held there until he Is
picked up by the boats.
In signalling shutter is attached
to the searchlight. This alternately
interrupts and proIongs or shortens
the period during which the light is
visible. BY this means the operator
is able to telegraph forty miles, using
any telegraph code. In Manila har-
Dor, during the insurrectlon, messages
were frequently sent more than forty
miles, by using the clouds as re-
Electors. This system can be used on
cioudless nights, but the signals can
not be seen so far. The searohlight
is also used in signalling on the same
principle as wig-wag flags.
Searchlight drills take place when
ever squadron lies in harbor. Steam
launches, to represent attacking
torpedo boats, are sent out from the
vessels, with instructions to return
under full speed, each launch striving
to get as close as possible without
being discovered. Meantime the
searchlights are so directed as to have
their rays skim every square of water
within the lights range. Sometimes,
even under this severe glare of light,
the boats succeed in reaching their
ships. In actual war this would, OF
course, result in the annihiIation of
the war vessel.
Visitors to the Jamestown EXPOSE
tion will have an opportunity to see
searchllght drills on scale never be-
fore attempted.
There is nothing so pleasant as that
bright, cheerful, at-peace with the
world feeling when you sit down to
your breakfast. There is nothing sc
conducive to good work and good
results. The healthy man with a
healthy mind and body is a better
fellow, a better workmen, better
citizen than the man or woman who
is handicapped by some disability,
however slight. A slight disorder OF
the stomach will derange your body,
your thoughts and your disposition.
Get away from the morbidness and
the blues. Keep your stomach in tune
and both yonr brain and body will
respond. Little indiscretions of
overeating can be easily corrected
and you will be surprised to see how
much better man you are. Try a
little KodoI for dyspepsia after your
meals. Sold by +. W. Rusher.