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included The one who has made the
nearest approach to it is Pay Inspector
John A Mudd- In a paper which is
published in the naval institute, this
distinguished officer says that of the
hundred millions annually appropri-
ated for the navy's support $4,000, 900
in round numbers is spent to pay the
wages of labor in navy yards
This amount, says the pay inspector,
is nearly equal to what it costs to sup
port the fleet in commission The ac-
counting for the actual disbursement
of these eighteen millions is thorough,
too thorough, perhaps The accounting
for why the money was spent is
simply the unregulated and generally
unexamined show of results, with lit
tie or no proof that the results equal
the values expended.
For the fiscal year of 1906 he adds
that the cost of maintaining all ships
then in commission was $23, 655, 950.41.
Returns for this year show that there
was spent for repairs to hulls, ma
chinery, and equipage of the ships
$3.50, 3O9.01. Thus the total cost of
the floating part of the establishment
during the year, excluding cost of new
construction 1881, 764, 556-5S alone)
was S29, 2O6, 259.42. 1t cost during the
same fiscal year to maintain all the
navy yards and other shore stations
$11, ills, 0S0-S1. Besides this there was
expended for buildings, chattels, ETC.,
and for machinery at these places the
sum of $9,5S9, 1S3.O9, making the total
of the real maintenance cost of the
shore part of the establishment $780,
694, 263.90. OF course this latter fig
ure does not include the work done at
the yards on or for ships; it is solely
the cost of keeping the yards in such
shape as to fit them for doing their
work for the floating part of the estab-
lishment. This cost alone of main
tanning the shore plant was more than
two-thirds the cost of the floating
part, the fleet.
Extravaganza of Shore Plants.
Enumerating the various other eX-
penses of the yards and stations, the
pay inspector makes the fiat assertion
that over half of the total appropria-
lions for the navy are absorbed by the
shore plants. OF the finished product,
the warship in commission and be-
yond the control of the land establish
ment force, there is, he says, little to
say. Admitting the absolute necessity
for that product, finished as it is to-
day, it's administration, away from the
navy yards, is apt to be economical
enough, comparatively speaking. 1t is
about the accounting for the necessity
for the expenses of the huge establish
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time, at another yard not many miles
away and with the same resources, at
a cost of $1,250-76? Where one yard
was able to make sos ditty boxes for
81, S99-77, was it just to the Money for
the Navy to spend 81 ,259 Sc, at the
same time, at another yard, in making
a similar number?
Prices Vary Greatly.
THE boats for the battleships
are built, as to kind, on the same
model and of the same material. Re
Gently, at one yard, it cost S1,S90.63, to
make a 30-foot steam cutter, while at
another, not many miles away, it cost
S2,6S462y to build exactly the same
kind of boat, to put on board the same
kind of battleship. A 30-foot barge
cost $671-0S at one yard and $1,151 at
another. Several 30-foot cutters cost.
on the average, S59S.61 at one yard
and $S4S-13 at another. A 14-foot
dinghy cost S1O4.0S at one yard, while
at another the same kind of boat was
turned out for S153-61. A 16-foot
dinghy cost S104-17 at one yard and
$196.34 at another-pretty close to
twice as much, it will be observed. A
20-foot dinghy cost S217.S9 at one yard
and S362.44 at another. A 30-foot gig
whaleboat cost s5G93S at one yard,
and the same kind of boat, for the
same kind of service, was turned out
at another yard for the euphonious
sum of $SSS.SO.
Turning to furniture: mahogany
desk for cabin cost s136.76 at one
yard, while at another, one made for
sister ship cost $3.50, there being no
cents wasted on this latter price. An
oak desk cost $112.07 at one yard and
S163.30 at another Toilet racks for
officers rooms, of which there are
more than 40 made for each battle
ship, cost s14.6O at one yard, while at
another exactly the same article was
turned out for the neat round sum
of 500
Curious Variations in Price.
ITO make and fit into battleship
six galvanized boxes, for fire clay,
30x24x15 inches, cost at one yard, for
the job, $167,01, and at another yard,
to make similar boxes and to fit them
on board a sister battleship, it cost
$3S4.12. These same boxes, untitled,
cost at one yard six dollars each; at
another, $S.47, and at still another,
$20S4.'
The pay inspector asks if change
in the method of appropriating money
looking to the increased economical
efficiency of the shore plant would
affect the fleet, and answers his own
question in the affirmative. Yes" he
says, materially, perceptibly, abso-
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nFeatber piaonosis.v

A woman who was perfectly well.
but fancied she was suffering from
fever, called on an old and exper-
fenced physician to consult him. She
described her symptoms at some
length, and he listened patiently. At
last he said: 81 think / understand
your case, madam. Sit perfectly still
a few moments and let me look at
you" She complied and he eyed her
attentively for nearly a minute, glanc-
ing at his watch once or twice in the
meantime. There is nothing the mat
ter with you, madam" he said. You
haven't the slightest indication of
fever. Your heart beat is perfectly
normal ''Why, how do you know.
doctor?" she asked in surprise. You
didn't feel my pulse" L didn't
need to-" he answered. 81 counted the
vibrations of the ostrich feather on
your hat" And he bowed her out.
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the maintenance of a British battle
ship. But it is likely that he has in
cluded in this estimate the cost of the
establishment which maintains the
ships. No mathematician has yet fig
ured out the cost of our ships of war
on lines which would include the cost
of yards, docks, etc. If this were
done it would be found that under our
present very absurd system, or rather
very absurd lack of system, in con-
Quoting naval affairs, the cost of main
tanning a British battlesbip would be
poor, cheap, and tawdry thing in COM
parison with the cost of maintaining
an American war vessel of the same
: type.
Over a Billion Since Spanish War.
The new navy, which dates from the
Spanish war, has cost to date s1,244,-
651 900. OF this sum s3O9, 900, 900 has
been expended on ships. The rest has
gone to the maintenance of the naval
establishment The cost of mainten-
sance of individual types is shown in a
series of tables prepared by the bu-
reau of supplies and accounts and in
corporated in the annual report of the
paymaster general of the navy. Dur
ing the fiscal year ended June 80,
1907, the cost of maintaining the 16
.tattleships which are now in the Pa
scific was as follows:
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INDUSTRIOUS TRIBE
THE NAVAJO is EXCEPTION TO
THE GENERAL RULE.
squaws Spend Busy Days Weaving
Blankets While Bucks Hire Out
in Beet Fields or Work as
Section Hands.

Denver--The present-day Indian, If
not considered a menace to society,
is looked upon as a charge on the
body polite, and we frequently hear
that the only good Indian is a dead
one, yet there are exceptions
The tribe of Navajoes, whose reser-
walton in New Mexico and Arizona
borders on southeastern Utah and
southwestern Colorado, numbers near
ly 1000 souls. They are a pastoral
people, herding sheep, goats and
horses over their great arid ranges,
and in a small way cultivating corn
and other grains. Except when ex-
cited by frewater, they are peaceable
and to a degree Industrious The
women are notable blanket weavers
and the men are silversmiths of no
mean ability.
Of late years the Nayajoes have
been employed with some consider
able degree of satisfaction as section
men on the Denver e Rio Grande and
other railroads running in close prox-
unity to their reservation. They have
also been engaged by orchardists to
gather fruit, and last season hundreds
of young bucks, ranging in age from
IL to 20 years. were employed in thin.
ming the sugar-beet fields of the Ar
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sums which it requires to maintain
them. The tables prepared by the
paymaster general show that while
the battleships average a little more
than 100000 a year, the armOred
cruisers average more than 100000.
The squadron of this type, which is
under the command of Rear Admiral
Dayton, and known as the big Four
is composed of the West Virginia, the
Colorado, the Pennsylvania, and the
Maryland. For the fiscal ended June
so the West Virginia cost $755, Isl Al,
the Colorado $7O6,057.16, the Pennsyl-
vania $735, 111.49, and the Maryland
$685., 526.06.
Cavalry of the Navy.
The armored cruiser has been COM
pared to cavalry. A distinguished
naval officer says that it is not COM
parable to cavalry. Moreover he
adds, mo one has proved that a navy
needs anything comparable to the cav
airy. 1t is not comparable to the cav
airy for the reason that it has not
nearly the same speed, relatively to
the other vessels of a feet, that the
cavalry has to the other branches of
an army; and because it has not near
ly the same power, either offensive
or defensive, relatively to the other
ships, that the cavalry has to the
other branches. And a person would
have to labor hard to prove that a
navy needs something comparable to
cavalry; for how can one find on the
open sea, and within the restricted
space which even the largest enemy's
fleet can cover, any opportunity for
those quick surprises, or those sudden
attacks on exposed lines of commune
cation, stretching away for miles,
which is one of the principal employ
ments of cavalry; and can one even
imagine squadron of armored
cruisers making a charge in battle
against battleships at all comparable
to those charges of cavalry which
again and again in history have been
hurled with irresistible violence
against a vulnerable point?"
This officer does not wish to be mis-
understood as questioning the useful
ness of armored cruisers; he merely
questions the logicalness of an oft-re-
peated argument. But at the same
time" he says, sit may be well to
point out that, though we can find a
use for our armored cruisers, now that
we have them, yet nevertheless, if we
had ten battleships instead of our ten
armored cruisers, our fleet would be
much stronger"
Cost Of establishments.
As has been said, no one has yet fig
ured out just what our ships cost
when the cost OF the establishment il
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ANNUAL SALES OVER NINE
MILLION.

Good, reliable quality is appreciated
by the smoker. Over Nine Million Co.
O00,O00) Lewis Single Binder cigars
sold annually. The kind of cigar smok-
ers have been looking for, made of
very rich, mellow tasting tobacco. It's
the judgment of many smokers that
Lewis Single Binder straight SC cigar
equals in quality the best 10c cigar.
There are many imitators of this cele-
brated brand. Don't let them fool you.
There is no substitute.
Tell the dealer you wish to try a
Lewis Single Binder.
Lewis Factory, Peoria, ILL.,, Original
ors Tin Foil Smoker Package.
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ment that supports the fleet that there
should be concern.
The paymaster thus pays his re-
spects to the bureau system of the
navy department: The bureaus" he
says, do not represent principalities
within clear, uncrossed dividing lines.
There are portions Of the personnel re-
source that, directly or indirectly, are
under the influence of more than one
bureau, and there are portions of the
money resource that cannot be ex-
pended properly by one bureau with
out advice or suggestion from another.
This necessitates coordination in or
der to accomplish, What an accept
able inspiring word coordination is,
The mention of it brings ones
thoughts to peaceful achievement, to
modern triumph over that business
demon, waste In the navy it means
something like the general peace in
Europe, where the dusty boundary
stone is not needed to mark division
between neighboring mighty states,
the demarkation being more clearly
shown by unbroken lines of waiting
bayonets. Such is coordination to-day
among the bureaus
Defects in Present System
Knowing that navy yard work,
even under businessiike administra-
ton, cannot be DONE with the neces-
sary government methods to contend
with, as cheaply as similar work in
commercial Shops let us be liberal
minded Then, also knowing that for
every boat tiller made there are thou
sands of pick handles and lawn now
ers, let US admit that the minimum
price of boat tillers made at the yards,
one dollar. is a just and proper value.
Does this give excuse for manufacture
ing others at three dollars each7
When 40 metal stateroom boxes, for
officers uniforms, were made at one
yard for $567, was it good policy to
manufacture 40 more, at the same
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96O-ZS-
Gun Practice Is Costly.
The 81, 645.09 expended for ord
nance was mainly for the powder and
shell used at target practice. A CORE
spondent who is with the fleet esti-
mates that the cost of the ammunition
expended at target practice in Magda-
lena bay alone foots up to a total cost
of $150,O00. THAT expenditure he
says, in giving the views of the Off
GERS, lis not expensive. On the con-
trary, it is the best money spent by
the United States navy. 1t is the pre-
MUM of insurance paid annually for
efficiency, and it will prove it's value
if these ships ever get into war
There'l be no hit or miss or reckless
helter-skelter shooting them
Congress and the navy itself have
long been divided over the relative
value of the battleship and the
armored cruiser. In spite of much OPP
position on the part of those who be-
lieve that battleships, vessels which
cost but little more to build, are in
finitely superior to the armored
cruiser, ten vessels of this type having
been recently added to the American
navy. The opponents of the armored
cruiser can now point to the vast
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Bankers Liable for Advice.

The highest court in Germany has,
in several recent cases, fixed the re-
sponsibility of bankers when advising
investments to their clients.
One of the latest decisions was rem
dered against bank which, upon re-
ceiving an order from customer to
invest $500 in certain mortgage
bonds. instead of executing the order,
advised its customer to buy instead
the bonds OF another company, as
equally safe and possessing advan-
tages over those ordered The GUS
toner followed the advice, and Wnen
the company failed he sued the bank
The court in its decision against
tbe hank held: The bank has not
done it's duty in taking care OF It's
customers interests when 1T recon-
mended the purchased bonds to be as
safe as those originally ordered to pc
purchased, because the bank should
have known that the latter had the
quality of legal or trust investment
funds for widows and orphans, wards.
etc. whereas the bonds advised and
bought for the customer lacked that
important qualification
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Months

These figures show that it costs
considerably more than 100000 a
year to keep battleship in commits
sion. The Connecticut, flagship of the
neet. may be chosen as an example
-.of the various directions in which the
money is expended During the nine
months of the fiscal year the main
tenance of that vessel cost $410, 531. OF.
OF this amount $685., 749.SS was for the
pay of her officers and crew. Com
muted rations amounted to $1S.s76.90-
For pilotage and postage the sum of
S1,61z-71 was expended. The value of
stores expended in the various depart
ments was as follows: Ordnance.
81, 645.09; construction and repair.
-. 339 81; steam engineering, $685.
329-45; equipment, $7,2S7.09; supplies
and accounts. $42.233.45; repairs to
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Menu Thorouuhiy Varied.

James Mcneil Whistler once visited
an artist in Paris who was not over
burdened with this worlds goods, and
was surprised at the sumptuous lunch
provided. On being asked how he
managed to live so well, his host re-
piled: 81 have a pet monkey. which
let down from my window by a rope
into that of my landlady, and trust to
Providence. Sometimes JACKIE returns
with loaf, sometimes with a ham.
His visits are full of surprises. One
never knows what may appear"
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NAVAJO hLA1ZYET WEATER

kansas, Grand and Uncompaghre val
leys in Colorado. They were away
from their reservation two months at
time, and their employers report
that their work was quite as satisfac-
tory as that of the Russian peasants
generally employed to do this work
and supposed to be unusually skilled
in this particular kind of labor.
Like all Indians their besetting sin
is monte Give an Indian the price
of his hire and he will quit work IN
til it is gambled away. They are a
polygamous people, have no religion,
and, like all aborigines, are supersti-
tious believing in all kinds of signs
and working of supernatural powers.
Although the Navajo reservation adj
joins the Mesa Verde National park,
where so many Cliff Dweller ruins are
found, it is with difficulty that a Nav
ajo can be induced to act as guide to
the ruins. When one is found willing
to show the way, he cannot be induced
to remain in the immediate vicinity,
and when night comes on he moves
miles away.
A curious tradition, and one ac-
counting perhaps for their adherence
of that region, is that ages ago, when
were engaged in an exterminating
warfare, the former were finally driv-
en- into a mighty river, and drowning,
their souls were transmitted into the
bodies of fishes. And from that time
to this a Navajo cannot be induced
to eat fish.
Another legend, no less curious, re-
lates to the Ship Rock. About 35
miles due west from Pennington, New
Mexico, and within the borders of
their reservation, situated in the midst
of the desert, stands a famous rock
called Ship Rock, which looms to the
height of 1000 feet above the sur
rounding plain 1t rises from the CEN
ter of an immense and gradually
sloping mound, which gives it a tow
ering appearance.
The rock derives it's name from its
appearance when seen from a certain
direction, when it resembles a full
rugged ship, stranded and petrihed-
The Indian legend is that in the dim
and misty past they had their habi-
tatfon in a distant land beyond the
great ocean and that the rock was
situated in their ancient country Once
upon a time, the tribe being closely
pressed by its enemies and in danger
of total humiliation, the survivors
climbed into the cracks and crevasses
of the great rock and implored 1T for
protection The applications were
heard and shortly the rock began to
move 1t crossed innumerable wastes,
gradually reached the ocean, which 1t
crossed. traversed more wastes and
deserts, and finally arrived at its pres
emit resting place, when the refugees
enr.np from its BOSOM Thus the
tribe remained upon the face of the
earth.
The ranks of the tribe are being de-
Melted. and before a good many years
the good Ship Rock win be obliged
to gather up the people and go. on
another long voyage. in order that the
tribe of the Navajo may be perpetuat>
ed among the tribes Of the earth
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lutely, at once. Every time a navy
yard clerk bungles or shirks his work,
the fleet feels it; every time navy
yard mechanic goes to sleep in the
bowels of the hull ON which he is
working, the fleet feels 1T; every time
supervising authority on shore is
overcome by a feeling of laissez faire,
the fleet feels it; every time two de-
partments at navy yard waste hours
in friction, in bumptfous quarrehng,
the feet feels it The fleet is as a
seismometer, for inefficiency on shore.
The shock of the fuIlpaid workman
idle at his job may not attract Or
binary notice, but it is recorded there
lust the same, and its mark may be
deciphered by those who search and
weigh and measure N Y. Times
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PAVING the Way.

George said the pretty girl, 81
know you're awful bashful-'
This was portentous, with leap year
SO new. He blushed assent.
'.And you'd have proposed to me ex-
cept for that?"
This, too, he was bound to acknowl
edge
..Well, would have accepted" sha
went on, "and so that's settled"
Discussing the matter later she ex-
pressed a natural pride that she had
not taken any advantage of the sea
SON.
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FRIENDS HELP.
ST. Paul Park Incident.

AFTER drinking coffee for breakfast
always felt 1anguid and dull, having
no ambition to get to my morning
duties. Then in about an hour or so
a weak, nervous arrangement of the
heart and stomach would come over
me with such force would frequently
have to lie down.
AT other times I had severe head
aches; stomach finally became at
fected and digestion so impaired that
I had serious chronic dyspepsia and
constipation A lady, for many years
State President of the w. C. T. u.
told me she had been greatly benefited
by quitting coffee and using Postum
Food Coffee; she was troubled for
years with asthma She said it was
no cross to quit coffee when she
found she could have as delicious an
article as Postum
Another lady who had been trou-
bled with chronic dyspepsia for years.
found Immediate relief on ceasing cof-
fee and beginning Postum twice
day. She was wholly cured StiIl
another friend told me that Postum
Food Coffee was a Godsend to her. her
heart trouble having been relieved
after leaving on coffee and taking on
Postum.
$50 many such cases came to my
notice that / concluded coffee was
the cause of my trouble and I quit and
took up Postum. I am more than
pleased to say that my days of trouble,
have disappeared. ! am well and
happy There's Reason" Read
1.-THE Road to Wellville." in pkgs-
Ever read the above letter7 A new
one appears from time to time They
are genuine, true, and full of human
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Revenoe,s FurIous Appetite.

He who, from a natural sweetness
and facility of temper, should despise
injuries received, would doubtless do
a very great and very laudabie
thing; but he who, provoked and
nettIed to the quick by an ofense,
should fortify himself with the arms
OF reason against the furious appetite
of revenge, and, after a great conflict,
master his own passion, would doubt
less do a great deal more.-Montaigna
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raise my hand above my head. The
doctor held out no hope of my re-
covery. and had given up, but at last
started using Doan's Kidney Pills and
made rapid gain. After three months
use I was well and at work again.
Sold by all dealers. SO cents a box
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N Y.
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invalid with kidney
troubles, and often
wished death might
end my awful suffer-
inss. The secretions
were thick with sedi-
ment, my Ii m b S
swollen and my right
side SO nearly par
alyzed 1 could not