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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-08-18

An extra session Of the Louisiana
Legislature has been called for the
purpose OF making sufficient appro-
priatiou for the exposition 20 be held
In Sew Orleans In 1915.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-08-18

Announcement was made yester-
day that Nurdock Strickland escaped
last Saturday from the convict camp
at the Halifax farm He was under
a sentence Of eight years for larceny.
The Yale expositor., 1910-11-04

man on watch with the nickeled stadmeter at his
eyes, the white buejackets in boats on the super
structure some with cameras poised-all leveled
to the same trenchant awe. Vague murmurs not
quite shouting. rise: the rumble OF a beated
loading hoist the hoarse hiss of air blasts clear
ing the bores. The nerveracking tsung OF a
primer discharged in some breech. with the bra
vado OF utter preparedness. Choking smoke
clouds vomit up over us from the crater of the
forward smoke pipe with the heat OF Turkish
bath
"Fire!"-and all around on the rails OF our
cage snarl out the buzzers
All the to starboard goes ribbed and scit
terng. as II under the first blow of a tornado.
Knots ten right" (Dehection) Down 6O0."
(Range) Knots six left" Down 300" "Salvo!"
You miss. or cannot remember after the exact
shouts of the spoilers the key to the actual
Workmanship. cried out as the geyser gardens
rise, and. transformed. they echo in the sub
station into the craft that guides the great spurts
TO bloom out where we all hunger for them to
be-bunched together and hiding the target with
their spray.
The Georgia's shooting at our screen"
That last one winged her" You catch such fever
ish comments between times. slowly grasping
too, that the yards and angles of range and de-
Election keep dwindling in size as shouted "TIit!"
comes, now and then. in the climax like ham
mer blow; and as the fourminute eternity ends
the long alarm bell for cease firing you hear
like man coming out of trance, the ordnance
officer calmly observing that the DETECTION wasn't
knot out all the time. but d---n that forward
turret for hanging fire so that those poison fumes
hid the splashes You are coughing In a first
remembrance of their strange. acrid. burning
strangulation.
The run is over. the spectacle and the human
burden of II delivered as the order is passed
to call up all divisional officers TO report any
misfires.
Swinging out TO the targets, hungrily
searching them for shell noes, the throng of
officers on the quarterback vent their relaxed ten.
sion-"Our dispersal was good but the range
finder read 500 yards over. That's always the
fault. And half the time II figures under" Or
you hear. "A difference of 30 per cent. in range
makes difference of 300 per cent. in the din.
Guilty of spotting" One learns that the forward
tweves hung FIRE because water splashed the
sights. We discern three hits In our target
none In any OF the other three. glory bel-pick.
ing them reluctantly from rents made by tho
seas; as the repair boats, putting out from each
ship of us. set their halfnaked crews struggling
with the mast and screens. herdlng the precious
canvases aboard the flagship. for judgment by all
umpires assembled
The Yale expositor., 1910-11-04

Delaw are and North Dakota. Each vessel is 5lO
feet In length and IS feet beam, and they go
their predecessors one better In the matter OF
shooting irons" for each has five tHrrets In
stead of four and carries total OF ten instead
OF eight of the 12-inch guns. Moreover, the Dela
ware and the North Dakota have each powerful
secondary battery made up OF fourteen or the Ell
fective 5-inch guns. Next year will see another
brace of "Dreadnaughts" the Utah and Florida,
take their places among the ships of the line
They are almost identical in size with the Della
ware and North Dakota After them will come
the Arkansas and Wyoming-each 554 feet In
length and 93 feet beam and carrying full dozen
OF the 12-inch guns, but 1t will he several years
ere these record-breakers are ready to report for
duty.
Next to the Importance of providing fighting
ships for Uncle Sans navy is the task of prepar.
ing the ships and the men who handle them for
the work they are intended for-hghting the bat
ties of the country, should the dread specter at
any time descend upon us. The thrilling expert
ences on board big ships playing at war are in
terestingly described in the following account
written by one who witnessed the recent naval
evolutions.
The plain red pennant for commence firing"
was hanging like a stain from all yards. Load"
from the ordnance officer The stains glide down.
TO the shrill peals of the standby bells Never
stood men so braced and rigid those spoilers.
staring through the soft rubber eyepieces of their
binoculars as the ordnance officer gravely syl-
tabled the final range and DETECTION, he got
them from the substation prophet, who had been
advised by the performance of the ranging shots;
The range is 10000; DETECTION AZ"
II is the last suspense. Slowly. far below. the
moving turrets begin to upward their guns
like intelligent creatures The big fo'castle deck
is an empty. slim. fiat, cigar-shaped finger lazily
dealing forward slippery rufs of Wilderness Foam
oozes up complacent around the anchor chains,
and your eyes rest unwittngly a fourmasted
opocr $40 I'm uff1 rrH fup-
mel astern the waiting targets. Every living
sinew scattered our faraway decks is trans
fixed-on the bridge screen the shippers arms,
bright with their four gold stripes, the midshp
The Yale expositor., 1910-11-04

uct and she blazed path in battleship de-
sign. Prior to the advent of this new-pattern
peacemaker the average battleship, whatever her
nationality, had been armed with 12-inch or 10
inch breech-loading rifles and with a variety OF
less powerful hitters. including S-nch, 5-inch and
3inch guns and on down through the whole
catalogue of naval weapons to the one-pounders.
The British naval architects and shipbuilders
when they produced the original "Dreadnaught,"
pointed the way to a new policy In arming the
new style vessel they cut down the number of
guns OF lesser Importance particularly the weap-
ons of intermediate size, such as the S-inch and
the 5-nch, and placed almost all the RESPONSE
bility for offense and defense guns of the
largest size.
The whole naval world immensely i'm
pressed with the naval novelty which John Bull
produced and all the leading nations including
the United States. straightway set about follow
ing his example by constructing such ships OF
their own Thus it came about that the name
''Dreadnaught," which originally applied to only
one ship came to stand for the whole family OF
"allbig-gun" ships, matter under what flag
such a vessel might be in service. The United
States now has four battleships Of the Dread
,naught" class in service; two more will probably
be ready TO join The big feet within year;
another pair under construction, and yet 9TH
ers will be contracted for this winter. II is cost
ing pretty penny, too, to assemble such an ar
raw of heavyweight fighters. for each of these
largestsize vessels costs complete upward OF $l2.-
0o0 OcO Likewise does II make big tug at
qIrcle Sans purse-strngs to keep these huge
arnorclads in active service. for each OF them
requires the services of nearly one thousand OH
GERS and men-haf as many again rs were re-
ouired for the largest of the old-stye battleships
The first American 'Dreadnaughts. the pat
tleshlps South Carolina and Michigan are yet so
new that few OF the people even in our large sea
coact cities have bad peep at them. They are
sister ships-that is, exact duplicates of one an
othor-and are $50 feet in length and so feet
beam or width Each Of these battleships carries
ofett Of The big i2lnch guns arranged In pairs IN
frirets This IS just double the number OF the
b, b rlzers 90 be round on any Of the battleships
rhst we're The accepted thing up to few years
The Yale expositor., 1910-11-04

RESIDENT TAFT recently de-
clared that this nation ought to
build two battleships OF the
"Dreadnaught" class every year
until the Panama canal is com
pleted and open for traffic.
After that water way is COM
pleted and the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts OF the United
States are in effect brought
nearer together in a naval
sense-that Is, 1t is made pos
sible for our warships to get
from one coast to the other
more quickly in the event of
trouble--it might, in the presi-
dents Judgment, be advisable
to slow down in the matter OF
The Yale expositor., 1910-11-04
Not Easy.

Pat was a married mana very
much married man. He had married
no fewer than four times, and all his
wives were still In the fore. Accord
ing to Pats own account before the
court where he was tried for bigamy
and found guilty, his experiences were
not altogether satisfactory. The
judge. in passing sentence, expressed
his wonder that the prisoner could
be such hardened villain as to de-
lude 80 many women.
yer honor" said Pat. apologetical-
ly, II was only tryin' to get good
one, an it's not aisy!"-Lippincott's
Magazine.
The Yale expositor., 1910-11-04
LovemakInq and Practice.

The only way to become an expert
at lovemaking is to practice. This
was the information handed out to a
handful of hearers by the Hindu phil
osopher, Sakharam Ganesh Pandit, in
lecture on The Science of Love"
Love is divine discomfort" said
the philosopher, land If you want to
arouse love in others it can be done
only by giving them love. How to
develop the emotion of love in another.
is the great question of today-the art
of making love. 1t needs a great deal
Of study and a great deal of prac-
tice."
The Yale expositor., 1910-11-04
GETTING a Reputation.

There is desk in the senate par
ttcularly convenient as place from
which TO make speeches. II is next
To the aisle and almost in the center
OF the chamber, and affords an oppor-
tunity for the speaker to make every
body hear.
At least a dozen senators, accord
ing to the Washington correspondent
CT the st. Louis Star, have borrowed
this desk when they had special utter
ances to deliver to the senate. This
led, not long ago, to a mid protest
from its legitimate occupant.
II am perfectly willing to give up
my desk" said he, but l am afraid
people will think that the same man
is talking all the time. l don't want
to get the reputation of constantly
filling the senate with Words
Youths Companion.
The Yale expositor., 1910-11-04
ProcrastlnatIon.

II heard a tale the other day of a
postponing chap, who thought he'd buy
a wheel so gay, but-'they will be
cheaper, perhaps And so he dallied
year by year, the cheapest wheel to
buy; but long before the cheapest gear,
that zap he had to die! And so, by
putting off the day. we miss the wine
of life; and some there are in just
that way who thus will miss a wife!
Get busy now, you timid swain, pro-
crastinate no more, for time is surely
on the wane, and you a bachelor!
Some wait too long to make a pick
of husbands or of wife, and then
some take a broken stick and make a
mess of life. H. B. Benedict, in
Judge.
The Yale expositor., 1910-11-04
One Of the Best Rest Cures.

Is q good story.
To many women It is as good as a
trip away from home.
When you are tired out and your
nerves are on edge. try going off by
yourself and losing yourself in some
good story. You will, in nine cases
cut of ten, come back rested and in
v,gorated.
One woman who has passed serene
iy through many years of hard work
and worry that go with the managing
of house and bringing up of a large
family of children, said that she con-
sidered It the duty of every busy
housekeeper to read a certain amount
of trash" light fiction, for the rest
and change to the mind that 1t would
give.
Try 1t, you who lead a strenuous
life, and who sometimes grow exceed
ingly weary of the same.
The Yale expositor., 1910-11-04

CT expected to be up again. A doctor
said I had acute Inflammation of the
bladder, but he could not help me.
How grateful was for the prompt
relief Doan's Kidney Pills gave me!
Continued use removed every sign of
kidney trouble"
Remember the name-Doan's.
For sale by all dealers. 80 cents a
box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N Y.
The Yale expositor., 1910-11-04

ago. Neither battle
ship has any other
weapons except the
three-inch and three
FOUNDER guns that are
provided to repel tor
pedo attacks.
II was only a few
months ago that the
second pair OF Dread
naughts," twins. made
their appearance In
navy. There are the
The Yale expositor., 1910-11-04

soreness and
urinary trou-
bles. These are
the warnings
natures signals
for help. Doan's
Kid n ey Pills
should be used
at the first sign.
Ira Clark ,
North Main ST.,
Savanna, ILL.,,
says: II was
confined to bed
with kidn e v
trouble and new
The Yale expositor., 1910-11-04

battleship building. Perhaps after the canal dig
gers have cut the continent in two 1t will suffice
to build one battleshp year, but for the time
being two year-and Dreadnaughts at that
are needed, in the opinion of the administration.
Now "Dreadnaughts' are a comparative novelty
in the United States navy and for all that there
are several of these vessels flying the Stars and
Stripes, and more building. there Is consider
able share of the public that has never grasped
the significance Of these new-style sea warriors
TO put the matter in nutshell, 1t may be ex
planned that "dreadnaught" differs from the
ordinary battleship principally by being larger
and heavier and carrying an increased number
81 guns Of big caliber. The term "Dreadnaught,"
1t will be understood has come to stand for a
whole class or family of battleshps rather than
for any individual vessel
All the same, this new nickname for the lat
est fashion in floating fortresses did originate
with one particular vessel-the first of her type
The pioneer "Dreadnaught" was a British prod
The Yale expositor., 1910-11-04
NATURES SIGNALS.

The first indication Of kidney dis
order is often backache. Then comes
pain In the hips and sides, lameness,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-07-05

phone horns. so as to be audible in
large room.
At the demonstration Inventor L. M.
Cole spoke in tone that could not
have been heard thirty feet away, and
in dozen rooms all over the building
the reproducer emitted the tones clear
ly.
The enunciator can be attached to
telephone circuits in large buildings.
and in every room simultaneously the
message will be given. These are some
Of the uses the promoters give:
Paging guests simultaneously In every
public room of hotel
Giving information to department heads
in wholesale houses from the main office.
Announcing trains from several horns in
large station Hobbies.
Sending commands to every officer on
battleship.
Announcing streets to passengers at ev-
cry seat In street cars.
Aiding the audiences of theaters. OPP
eras and churches to hear all that is said
and even carrying the sound to resi-
dences
Notifying building employees of fire in
the building.
Calling carriages and automobiles at
theater entrances.
Delivering complete baseball and racing
news to any number of halls.
Carrying the voice of speaker to audi
ences at overflow" meetings.
The results are gained by alterations
to three telephone agencies-the trans
mitter, the receiver Tor producer, as it
is here called and the circuit itself
The nature Of these alterations the pro-
moters refuse to give out until patents
are perfected and manufacture start
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TRY OUT MONEY LAUNDRY.
Uncle Sans Bills Scrubbed by Ma
chino at WASHINGTON

Uncle Sans Bills Scrubbed by Ma
chine at Washington.
Uncle Sans money laundry is get
ting tryout in the United States bu-
reau Of engraving and printing Di-
rector ]. D. Ralph is on the job watch
ing with interest the renovator of dir
ty bills do its duty. The machine on
trial is one invented by Frank B.
Churchill.
The machine takes bills and spreads
them ON screen. This screen is re-
voNed rapidly through a solution of
soap and water. which takes off the
CRIME. The next disk takes them
through strong solution of disin-
fectant. which removes the germs.
third disk removes the traces of the
other two waters and sends the bill
out on to plat ready for the "plater."
The platter" is the same roller used to
press new money. 1t is this machine
that gives new money its crispness
After the washed out bills are run
through the platter they are COM
paratively new, the ink colors having
been brought out again and the dirt
removed
1t is Mr.. Ralphs idea that the life
of banknote will be extended about
60 per cent by the new method The
machine which he wants will cost be-
tween $500 and $1,000. 1t with save
from $5O0.o00 to $1,OO0.00O annually.
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CHIEF LEGISLATION PASS
Ed BY CONGRESS.

Revision of the railroad laws,
including the creation of a com
merce court.
Admitting Arizona and New
Mexico as separate states.
Authorizing the establishment
of postal savings banks.
Giving the president unlimited
authority to withdraw public
lands for conservation purposes.
Authorizing the issue of $20,
100000 in certificates of indebt-
edness to complete reclamation
projects.
Authorizing the entry of the
surface of coal lands.
Creating commission to con-
slider economies in the admins
tration of the federal govern
ment.
Providing a new tariff system
for the Philippine Islands.
Legislation which ultimately Is
expected to give practical prohi-
bition to the Hawaiian Islands.
Providing for publicity of cam
paign contributions.
Creating bureau of mines.
Extending the activities of the
tariff board and appropriating
$3.50. 900 for its use.
Looking to the suppression of
traffic In white slaves"
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Inventive minds have been trying
for long time to hit upon some proc
ess by which old newspapers could be
reduced to pulp and the ink extract
cd and the pulp made into printing pa
per again. But the extraction of the
Ink has hitherto been unaccomplished
From Germany, however, comes the
news that the paper pulp treated with
alkaline solutions ceases to hold the
lampblack or other pigments Of the
ink, and they are easily extracted from
me fiber by making an emulsion Of the
pulp with gelatinous silica.
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pivina Is Rsmunsrativs.

The free instruction given by the
United States navy at its seamen gun
ners' school includes course in div
ing. Many Of the younger bluejackets
become very proficient in this work
Besides his regular pay. the member
a ships crew, If a diver, receives an
extra compensation Of $1.20 per hour
for the actual time he is employed
under wafar
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HOW CURTIss EXPECTS FORTS TO BE DE-
STROYED IN FUTURE.
les and Notifications. l think l show
ed the possibilities of the aeroplane in
warfare. 1t would be perfectly prac-
teal to drop enough dynamite or picric
acid down on West Point or city like
New York to destroy it utterly. or
course the speed of flying machine
cannot be reduced below forty-five or
fifty miles an hour, a speed necessary
to keep it aloft So to hover over cit
les or Notifications you must circle
around or swoop down from a great
height and thus get near enough to
the objective point to discharge your
stores of explosives.
Explosives could be dropped by
pressing foot trigger that would re-
lease a clutch holding the dreadful
compound. To be sure of getting the
exact range l would have. ii neces-
sary. lot of small dummy cartridges.
These would discharge first. The
moment / got the range l would drop
the dynamite.
Warshps' Doom Predicted.
'Then suppose we were attacking
warships. We could dynamite their
decks and blow them in even If we
missed dropping the charges into
smokestacks and furnaces. Take my
word for it, the days for big warships
are numbered. / read that Japan is
now turning to small vessels Of war
and will have no more expensive
Dreadnoughts.
''What could armies of bravest men
do under shower of dynamite? Well
managed flying machines flashing
through space at 100 miles an hour
are soon to revolutionize our entire
system of warfare. So think l am
justified in saying that the battles of
the future will be fought in the air.
The aeroplane would not endanger
New York in the event of war is the
opinion Of Brigadier General Walter
Howe, commanding the department of
the east, with headquarters ON Gov
errors island High in the air and
travelling at great speed, General
Howe said the aviator would find his
task very hard one if he attempted
to drop explosives on vessels or forts.
| If he descended to an altitude where
he could drop his explosives with any
degree of accuracy the land forces
would wreck his machine with shrap-
incl
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AIRSHIPS FIGHT
FUTURE WARS
Curtiss Predicts Supremacy Of
AerOpIane In Battle.
ARMY OFFICER DISAGREES.

Cruisers of Air Not Dangerous to
Forts and Navies at Present Time,
Asserts Commander of Eastern De-
partment, but Admits Conditions
May Soon Be Upset by Inventors.
| Glenn HI. Curtiss in commenting on
his aerial flight from Albany to New
York asserted that the battles Of the
future would be fought in the air.
Though practically all aviators agree
with Curtiss, some army men take Wig
orous exception to a premature aboli-
ton of armies and navies.
1t is pointed out that 5000 aero
planes, each of which can duplicate
Curtiss' fight, may be purchased for
the price of one great battleship. Yet
a single one of these Insignificant ma
chimes, manned by a competent opera
tor fired with patriotic zeal, can utterly
destroy a $1OOOO,O00 Dreadnought like
the recently launched Florida, with it's
crew of 1900 men
Aerial Militia Needed.
"The first thing to do, however" said
Charles K. Hamilton, the aviator, sis
to organize an aerial militia. We have
aeroplanes that are practical for all
purposes, and we can ride them in any
reasonable wind. What we need is an
efficient corps differed by such men as
Curtiss, Baldwin and the Wrights to
teach young men how to handle an
aeroplane. We have the aeroplanes,
but not the aviators"
Il have demonstrated" said Mr..
Curtiss. that it is easy to fly over cit
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ton and to modify the rules. In the
house after memorable fight they re-
moved the speaker from the rules COM
mittee, which they enlarged and caus-
ed to be elected by the house itself.
Their chief fight was against the
Payne-Aldrich tariff and against what
they termed Cannonism. 1t is general
~ agreed that their activity had much
to do with the retirement of Aldrich
and Hale in the senate and to have
made Speaker Cannon's reelection i'm
possible. Through their influence the
pigeonholing of bills has to an extent
been abrogated