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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-20
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bullseye before he presses the trigger They must!
THEY MUST!
He pulls-as easily child cracks toy revolv-
Look! the gun is discharged. Yes: it went off just
now. swear it did. Sure enough! The great breech
sinks Though the floor the sleek shiny haunch slips be-
meath grasp welches there in the glazed light
of the lethal chamber, drops till its crest is low
its belly lay, poised slips to it's first po
sition lies patiently modestl for the next charge
graceful spring tgress made moont
road feline with stealthy swftness decisive oiled
piston strokes!
And your hand has been IL inches from the launch
ing of that thunderbolt! Oh well, this is easy Who
need be afraid here? This is place for grand stand
here gather all lovers of royal sport Great sport
indeed it is. for we can watch the precision and
swiftness Of that silent working against time.
The plugman unlocks the breech and pulls it open.
The loader leaps the chasm hips up the tiny
guard that breaks the electric connection and
tracts the used primer. Automatically the air-bast
works. and you hear the swift escape, Of steam,
it cleans the rife blowing away and stray pow
grains The egg smell of the nitro comes and the
sweetness of the ether.
Then the grind from the hoist the shutter opens and
up springs again the Looking down. you there
the that lies in all shps-the direct location
of the gun-breech the powder magazines. burnt
grain falling down there, with inefficient shutter the
only protection is constant danger Over the building
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a word said.
Now until you hear again that command "Silence!"
you will hear only two words:
Commence fring!"
Rambling from below. With a grating crash the
tomato shutter drops in the ammunitionhois and the
shecar climbs its grinding, steady to the top Sud-
denly realize that the machine is working of its
own accord You movement on the part of any
to set going Except for that umpire, who, like
the that the fool-kier will doubtless some time
really business there the turret contains but
officer midshipman, and he is with the other
all here enlisted The officers aoft spot
ting the shells they strike. below setting the
with intricate instruments and delicate adjust
ments. About the itself the and the machinery
move automatically, drilled to precision. Their last
instructions were Ito take easy" consequently they
work like buttons in shirt.
The plugman pulls open the breech; the hoistman
locks the the loader completes the passage from
to breech with ring Of pounded brass; the boy
pper jerks down his lever, and the huge SHE'LL nearly
half ton in weight, drops to its all but final resting
place. The hammer holds down his long release,
cable grpman throws back his lever. and the smooth
brass head forces the shell till its soft copper rim
takes" the rifng of the when a shell is not
properly placed" in this way-f its collar does not
take-it will surely be miss. And If the powderbags
are placed wrong end to there is grave danger Of
hang-fre, and q hangfre is worse than miss-hre-
almost bad hareback-and a bareback every.
knows, is what probably did up the Georgas tur
ret One OF these shells Is about the size of three
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OF the ammunition hoist N<-."N NM
directly above the maya, ;c4 liz %: NJ.
zines the navy has fought Ef4@M&-xn
of its sternest inter. V&sf3&S4&f6N
nal wars and the war is
still far from finished:
nor Will 1t be over until sealed tube has been substt
tuted
The umpire is only too we'll aware of this danger
he critically watches every of the crew. The utter
silence still prevails The gun been once fred and
Is oeng loaded for the second time the first minute
has not passed, and still not a word
The second shot Is fired. Again the easy, unbeliev-
able reco1 Less than anywhere in the ship you feel
1t here at the trunnon Of the gun IT'S always In
storm-centers is the calm; in the core of the acorn
dwels the germ AS Dsrae said the only Joy in being
prime minister lies IN the certainty of your knowledge
that nothing is happening the inside. Here in
letha chamber at the center Of destruction pre-
vail only silence and quiet
third and fourth time the smooth recoi The crew
works with the delight of clock vastly
complicated. but of single purpose and a single
thought You are locksd up with single gun Sepa-
rated by skin of steel Is it's mate When that speaks
the turet Is jerked on the barbette and the
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OF WIDELY DIFFERING TYPES

Of them: had exactly what the other
lacked. Swift's nature was the more
intense and passionate; he was a
master of satire and invective, a Nigh
ty political leader, capable of rous-
ing nation to the highest pitch of
patriotic fervor. Berkeley's character
was larger, sweeter, more humane,
but, he never touched the chords sof
passion, no cheering crowds ever fol-
lowed his footsteps as they did those
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Swift and Berkeley Two Great irish.
men Directly Opposite In
Character,

Not often do we see two master
minds at work in the same country
and at the same time. so completely
illustrative of two opposing types as
were. Swift and Berkeley, T. W.. ROLES
ton says in the Fortnightly. Oppos-
iur. but not necessarily hostile. Each
s--
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alton this the turret-crew the GEORGIA wont IN
death' ana that no one has ever found out how it
happened; that In precisely the same way the Mis-.
souri, burned to death 20 men, not one in that
steel escaped
Credit: ~ The face Of the umpire stop-watch in
hand, he stands behind the breech looking down into
the powdermagaznes. You know he Is there to pre-
vent recklessness Though these men are firing
against time he will let them do nothing foolhardy:
knowledge that thousands guns like this have
been fired from turrets like this-and all came out
alive. You do not enter railway trains timidly be-
cause dozen people were killed year before
five thousand miles away. YET when you enter the
turret of a Pinch gun
They lock you up. There is escape You stand
there nervousy by the trunnion and somehow is
like factory railway coach street car or any
other moderny approved limb-manglng device. These
things built to kill and presently these fellows
going to touch electric spark which will loose
enough anxious and determined gas to drive $50
pound shell 10 miles and put it completely through
steel plate as thick the one that is supposed to
protect you.
YET there you are the Thing before you and you
reach out and pat it the shiny, cold haunch
II it wobbes spring breaks q trunnion has mis-
takenly got rusted or rifle barrel refuses to
accommodate the shell, you will be fit brother for
detected cockroach. If there is bareback you have
the slightest possible chance OF escape: hold your cap
face don't breathe hur yourself under the
barrel and fall into the handlingroom You may break
a few bones. but II the burning gas gets to
than 80 per cent of skin you will live; that is
how the single mdshipman who escaped from the
Georgia saved himself. Yet tell how that
gas gets in its work. Sometimes it burns away the
flesh and touches the clothing again. it snges
of all the hair and touches the flesh; again. It
burns the clothing and leaves you Naked but
safe.
So! They have locked you up III this steel cage.
The others have some reason here. With them it is
work. duty contest II killed they die nobly get brass
tablets in the wall with their inscribed, pen
go to their families the newspapers call them
heroes If you die they will cut on your obscure tomb:
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letha chamber They eleven: trainers
hoisman one trippe leaders, and plugman Anu
unnecessary one the other ousder-ne Is
umpire: he wears of the ensign
officer and he is to keep nnss
straight to omit sdestep the bursting OF
overspeed You pin your 1atn tne1e et tns
skyplot of the turret! - Nathan
tripper slight lad boy OF perhaps IL years a
has he ever he Is stand there ana
pull thruss the shell and Its following
breech In undersh1r par
If trousers and waits the word He was caught
only year ago of Minneapolis whittier he had come
the farm ,...
Far up of the barrel encased In leather
locked to the telescope that pro-
ies from the him. He might be diver with that
cnros tumble and the speakngtube trail
Wheel chauffeur his seeringgea
and moves easily barbette the 13oon turret Below him.
hovoon his his sights. They might
these along the slope that sleek
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Tslpherage System a Success. =
A telpherage system capable of
three-ton loads is in use on
the wharf of steamship line at Rich.
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E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound.
Eleven years ago I
was a walking
shadow. Ihad been
under the doctors
carebutgotnorelief.
My husband per-
suaded me to try
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable CON-
pound and itworked
like a charm. It re-
1ieVed all nv naina
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valuable knowledge Spreading.

valuable knowledge Spreading.
~r-s Every day sees hundreds Of new7re-
:ruits in the war against tuberculosis,
and every day brings new methods for
the fighting of the plague. The Ma
tional association predicts that II the
present degree of interest is main
tanned, within five years everybody in
the United States will have been in
formed on the way to prevent and
cure tuberculosis, and concerning the
infectious nature Of the disease. Two
things in particular are needed, and
for these the National association ia
working in every way. They are, a
more complete registration of tuber.
eulosis cases, and the further isola-
ton Of dangerous advanced cases of
consumption.
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EXPZOS/OW =
ara TWEzNE--WCH SHEZL.

whiste begins The umpire his stop-watch
the little red book which defines
this
following minutes this will try put five shots
mile the quiet
And the mlpond worthy Magdaene
The gdes like steel through flesh
The gun-capain, Of the leaders, speaks!
is-"sience" 1t precedes and closes
potency of command
needed the anteroom
chan his mate after that command "sence"
guncaptain TO him without
heavy the face with gnared
hand: the recruit carried a week; by
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It'll a sealed tube has been substt

Is pulled
fro m it's
e q u i libri.
UNI. This
Is the back
lash. After
every shot
the trainer,
W i t b q
quick twist
of h / g
W h e e l.,
subtly alb
serbs the
backlash.
For the
fifth time
the shutter
opens. the
grind as
cends. the
t r / p p er
pauses to
flip his le-
yer. when
Silence!"
The tone is
raised. It
has anger,
c o ncealed
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On the other side the
pointer, with his assistant
also rides pickaback. Here
is the eye for which this
whole ship was built: here
the nerve and quickness Tor
which the $4,000 tons, the
seven millions of dollars,
the five years of making,
have spread their august be-
ing. His accuracy may sink
a warship; his weakness
ruin a nation. To find him
and his like half a million
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AM1L1AR1TY, tbs said, breeds
contempt; but I have an extreme
respect for a Pinch gun on a
battle-ship. The very last thing
I care for in that connection is
either familiarity or contempt.
The men who work it, who some
day will fight with it-let those
men explain how innocent such
a gun is, how facile its manage
ment, how bland its temper, how
exquisite its adjustment. Not I.
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q mile away; stood there with my cap in my
hand. ready to clap it my face in case Of
accident cursing the curiosity that led me to
that lethal chamber. Then the wonder of it
came over me-the silence of the gun-crew; the
stealthy leap Of the rife barrel, like the spring
OF a grasshopper: the quiet dull report which
scarcely trembed that stately moving fortress
the sour-egg smell of the nitrocellulose stmulat-
Ing the nerves; the sweet, sick subtlety of ether
lulling the overweight brain.
When they shut the steel door that Gagged US
In slipped into funk and until the first shot
was fired my nerve was gone. The sides of nv
courage account footed up:
Debit: Q) Imprisonment in an oval case the
shape OF coffin the sides formed of solid steel
nine inches thick and the top of steel Just as
solid and five inches thick; (2) filling quarter
of that case the back third of Pinch rifle bar
REL ready for action; (3) below, an open chute,
with steel car bringing the shells and powder
from the magazines still farther below; "a the
stern. silent faces of the gun-crew, which exactly
resemble those faces at places of execu.
ton: Is to 1907 memory-the knowledge which
you cannot fight away that in just such a stu
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you will believe that it is less dangerous to be locked
inside the turret while big gun is being fired than it
is to cross Broadway at Twenty-thrd street. Perhaps
1t is, but prefer Broadway.
And yet, the fascination! great gun has for the
imagination the potency of evil ITSELF Emblem of force
symbol of destruction it stands SERENE majestic while
round Its muzze gather all the forces of the races
struggles and through its breech march hate PAIN grief
ambition, power and DEATH
The torpedo" said the captain of battleship to
me one night at dinner, lis less of expert
ment toy 1t would be practically impossible for
to sink big ship. The only thing really afraid
OF is 12-nch gun"
The next day went into the after-turret when the
snip was on the range and in full and sympathetic
cord with the captain stood beside the breech of
Of those guns while it dropped four shots into target
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Sore throat il no triding ailment. Il
will sometimess carry infection to the en-.
tire system through the food that is eaten.
Hamlins Wizard Oil IL . sure, quick cure.
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When you hear girl speak OF a
young man as being a bear-well. you
can draw your own conclusions:
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% Who Looked
on Forbid
den Things"
We. are on the range. Some one
calls, "Starting-buoy," and you know
that in another minute this double
twisted, original imitation Of billy
blue hell will commence. You reflect
that a blast pressure of IL pounds to
the square inch will kill a man. You
know that the pressure on the air
near the muzzle Of this gun whose
breech you are beside, when 1t Is
fired, is several tons to the square
inch. You remember that only a few
years ago green sailorman stood off,
side 16 feet, that some one called to
him to lie down just as the gun was
fred. that he was in the act of lying
down when it was fired, but that the
suction Of the air going with the
shell drew his head from his D. body
and broke his neck. This does not
add to the pleasure of your situation,
for you can easily reach out there
pat that cold haunch.
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PERRY DAVIS PAINKILLER
10 tho best. safest and surest remedy for crampA
collie and diarrhea: A. z liniment for wounds and
spEains 1t 10 uneQual1ed. &c. &c and Soc.
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OWES
HER
LIFE TO
Lydia e. Pinkhan's
Vegetable Compound

Vienna, w. VAL feel that I owl
the last ten years Of nv life to Tvfli.
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A malicious truth may do moro
harm than an innocent lie.
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Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
For children teethIng, softens the gurn6 reduces IN
oammaton, auays patn. cures wind colto. a5ca bottle
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True to Lite.
Teacher - Johnnie, do you know
what a blotter is?
Johnnie-Yessum. It's de ting wot
youse hunts fer while de ink gets dry.
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An easy beginning doesn't always
Justify the finish.
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on the voice of
his index finger,
and he row 8
a NJ US; his
W b ole b eng
urs its e ! Il
along the wheel
to q resolution
Of that terrible
probl e m. An
hour, a minute,
five seconds, a
week-how much
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of the ammunition hoist
directly above the maya.
zines the navy has fought
one of its sternest inter-
nal wars and the war is
still far from finished.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-28
PROSPERITY DEMONSTRATED
IN MILLIONS SENT ABROAD
NeW York Shipments For Holiday
Season Make NeW High Record

UEW YORK, Dec. 27.-As a sign
of returning prosperity residents OF
Greater New York have given mil
lions to their less fortunate neigh
'bors across the Atlantic. Since Sep
tember 1, in money orders alone, an
aggregate of $7,524,963.41 has been
sent over sea, topping the amount
sent last year by $2,238,125.56
Thousands of dollars also have gone
by express orders, as well as nu-
merous packages of Christmas gifts
handled by express companies.
Great Britain led in the umber
of postal orders with nearly $4,000
600. Italy was a close second with
$1,732, ,101.21. In the number of
money orders there was gain OF
$140,519 over 1908, the total being
485,151.
The heaviest boatload of orders
left New York on December 8, when
the Lusitania sailed with 1882
607.50. The Kronprinzessin Cecile
on December IA had on board the
sum of $1,276, 1885, while the New
York, which sailed week ago, car
ried orders for $1,042,071.39.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-28
CORNER IN
R. |. CAUSE
Of PANIC;
Shorts Rush TO Cover at
a Tremendous Advance
Declared Deep Coupe

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-A startling
market movement that has the ear.
marks of corner came today, when
the common stock of the Rock Is
land company within r1ve minutes
after the opening rose from 505s tc
81, when 1t settled back again, after
heavy trading, to so. A block OF
1900 shares was sold at 81. 1t Ii
believed the furry was caused by
someone being short.
The trading in Rock Island COM
mon in the first twelve minutes was
approximately 100000 shares. Dur.
ing the first hour, $4,000 shares
were traded in.
A report was current on the floor
that the clerk in handling an order
for 1000 shares made an error and
made 1t read 100000 shares, caus-
ing the break.
The best opinion, however, is that
the short interest is the cause and
that carefully laid trap was sprung
which only occurred because of the
absence of several large operators
from communication with the mar
ket.
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TYRRANY IN
PRISONS IS
LAID BARE

DETROIT, Dec. 27.-"The abuses
revealed in connection with the re-
tention of state prisoners under the
Indeterminate Sentence law are out
rageous," declared Judge Phelan to-
day.
Judges, attorneys, ministers,
priest, reform workers and the public
generally are up in arms at the con-
dition revealed in Michigan prisons,
and they repeat Judge Phelan's S
charge. Paroled men are kept be-
yond the expiration of their mini
mum term as follows: In the De-
troit House of Correction, four
months; in Jackson prison, five
months; in Ionia Reformatory, eight
and one-half months.
The charge is made that the extra
time in the latter institution is due
to the prison contract system and
the desire of wardens and contract
ors to hold good workmen, despite
good behavior, to profit by their la
Dor. The fate of the prisoners is left
entirely in the hands of the warden,
and at least one warden was ousted
last winter on charges of grating.
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STANDARD OIL MAN INSANE.
Hampton Gould Westcott Said t6
Have Been Crazed by Trust
Proceedings.

WHITE PLAINS, Dec. 27.--
Hampton Gould Westcott, presi-
dent of the Standard Oil Co. of Ken
lucky, whose residence is at Port
Chester was declared insane and in
competent to manage his estate by a
sheriff's jury serving with Assistant
District Attorney Frederick e.
Weeks as commissioner at White
Plains this afternoon.
Mr.. Westcott, who is AZ years old,
is an inmate of Bloomingdale Asy-
lum, where he has been since June
1 last. His mind is said to have
gwen way because of the fear that he
would be called as witness in pro-
ceedings brought by the government
to dissolve the trust.
Mr.. Westcott Is said to be friend
of Mr.. Rockefeller and it was
brought out that since his break
down, which occurred in 1907, the
company has continued to pay him
his salary. His estate is said to be
valued at less than $4,000, the In
come of which is about $500 year.
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COURT SCORES BABY BOYCOTT
Holds 1t Unlawful for Flat Landlords
to Exclude Children.

CHICAGO, Dec. 27.-It was
held unlawful and opposed to pub
lie policy for a landlord to refuse
to rent an apartment to family
with children under IA years old, In
a decision handed down by Judge
Hines, in the Municipal court to-
day.
Judge Hines also said he consider
ed the barring of children from
apartment houses an incentive to-
ward race suicide" He added that
hotels and lodging houses were nor
proper abodes for young children
and, If they were barred from apart
ment houses, those would be the only
places left for them.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-28

MINING WORK
RECORDED IN
THE COUNTY

Patrick Bonner yesterday filed
certificates of labor for this years
for the Tiger placer claim, in Rob-
inson district.
j. M. Melville filed certificates for
the Nevada, Nevada Nos. and
claims in the Robinson district.
]. T. Cron filed certificates for the
Ely West Nos. 1, 2, 8 and 4 claims,
this district.
T. G. Silliman filed certificates for
the Gladiator Nos. and 2, Road,
Dina, Canyon No. 2, Elmira, Scor-
pion, Copper King, Black Jack,
Spirit Nos. and 2, Jeo Sun, Old Sol
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dier, Overland and Canyon No.
oIo;voc thic Jiofriof

dier, Overland and Canyon No.
claims, this district.
]. B. Hazlitt fled certificates for
the Blackbird, Eldorado Nos. 1 and
2 claims in the Ward district.
The Pittsburg Ely Copper Com
pany, by J. B. Hazlitt, filed certifi-
Gates for the Keyboard, Keyboard
Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 5, Key Ring, Key
note, Mammoth; Montreal and Mexi-
ca claims, this district.
R. Thomas filed notice of loca-
tion for the Wedge claim in the
Eagle district.
F. D. Oldfield filed certificate OF
labor for the Trixie claim, this dis
trict.
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note and while preparing recently to
engage in his favorite sport, the
weapon was accidentally discharged
the bullet passing directly through
the heart. Death was considered by
his family and attending surgeons to
be a matter of only few minutes at
the longest, but young Drysdale,
noted for his grit and determination,
announced that he was going to live.
Today he sat up, smoked and
laughingly told his friends of the eff
ficacy of will power.