The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-06-06
LETTER FROM THE
NATIONS CAPITAL.
Col. BRYAN HEARD FROM-NEW TOR.
PEDO POSSIBILITY YOUNG LADY
AWARDED MEDAL FOR HEROISM.

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WASHINGTON, D. g., June g.
Col Bryan has set at rest, 80 far as he
is concerned, the rumor, always re-
garded as senseless ia the realm OF
practical politics, of any coalition
between the two great parties. His
announcement has been received
with considerable satisfaction in
Washington, because, while there
was never much stock taken in the
story that Bryan was at the last
moment going to throw his influence
to Roosevelt, there was enough
possibility in the uncontradicted
rumor to make basis for talk. Mr.
Bryan says that while he admires
President Roosevelt. aud while the
President has adopted some Demo
cratic policies and made the best use
he could of them, he has never
carried anv of these policies as far as
they need to be carried, or as far as
the Democratic party would have
carried them had it had the chance.
Mr. Bryan says he does not even
want to influence the Democratic
party in the choice of a nominee for
the presidency, but that whether he
did or not, all talk of the party |
endorsing President Roosevelt is the
merest nonsense.
The Navy department has been
experimenting Quietly with a new
torpedo that, If it Is the success its
designer claims it to be will, solve
the long discussed problem of ultiz.
ing gasoline gas as a metive power
without exploding it in an internal
combustion engine. As most people
know, the economical and effective
little gasoline engine that has solved
the automobile problem and is
furnishing the power for so many
thousands of farmers all over the
country, works by mixing gasoline
vapor and air in the cyclinder of the
engine and then firing it by an
electric spark. This takes the place
of steam in an ordinary engine, but
there are Gel tain disadvantages in it,
chiefly that it has 10 be run at a
high and constant speed to develop
ats full efficiency and that for slower
speed gears have to be introduced.
The new torpedo uses gasoline as
"a motive power, but by clever
combination with water in the jacket
rof the engine, it converts the gasoline
vapor into what is practically steam
and feeds it directly to the cyclinder
of the engine without the aid either
of fire or a spark plug, which as all
gasoline engine users know, is one
of the most detestable of human
devices. The new torpedo is a re-
markable engine of war if all that
is claimed of it be true. 1t runs at
speed of over 60 miles an hour and
IS effective at a range Of over two
miles. 1t is under perfect control
and stands very small chance of
missing the warship at which it is
simed. But the chief interest for
the general public lies in the claim
of the makers that the problem Of
using gasoline vapor direct has been
solved. If this is so, it means .
revolution la small power engines
for farm use.
A young woman of Middletown,
New York, Miss Guinan, has Just
obeen awarded medal fos herolsm
and With the distinction of having
ut presented with a letter from
President Roosevelt. She saved the
life of Mr. Ryuon. He was over
seventy years old and very feeble
when he attempted to cross the
tracks in front of an approaching
train, not observing that train was
also rapidly approaching on the
.otbar track from the opuosite direc-