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FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY
BY LIEUT. F1TzHuGR GREEN U N.
Armor Plate

bettes and turrets, from which men
fire the heavy guns; side belt extend
ing nine -tenths the length of the ship,
10 to Is feet above the water-line and
or five feet below.
Light armor is distributed mostly
where splinters would do damage.
Torpedo defense guns have only pinch
armor. They are not usually manned
in heavy actions but must be safe
from the small guns of torpedo craft.
Thin armor bulkheads divide COM
partments on the gun deck, so that
bursting shell will hurt only those In
the vicinity. Fl
Many ships have thwartship plates
forward as protection when running
head-on into an enemy's fire. Most
important of all is the protective
deck, 2 to 4 inches thick, and cove
ering nearly all space below the water
line Over engine rooms and in the
smoke pipes heavy steel gratings per-
form the same duty
Though weight is saved by having
only necessary heavy armor and as
little as possible light armor, the
total load is tremendous. A battle
ship may have from 10000 to 10000
square feet Of armor plating. Pro-
! tective deck pinch plate weighs 80
lbs per so. foot; 13-inch side armor'
, $50 lbs. per 50. foot; and 1S-inch tur-
ret face plates 100 lbs. per SO. foot.
About per cent. of the total weight
must be added for securing bolts and
nuts.
Armor and projectiles seesaw In SUI
premacy. At present projectiles are
ahead. But what's the use? Both are
| made Of the same metal.
When a shell strikes there is a blaze
| of light. The shell is heated white
| hot by the friction Of impact, fusing
| some Of the plate until 1t splashes like
mud into which rock has been
| thrown.
If all histories are destroyed pos
terity may wonder why we dug so
many millions of tons Of steel out of
the ground and threw it into the sea.
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to do was turn the light of his mind
the start of the colossal world war and
the date of our entrance into the same
struggle. From the moment the Ger
man hordes invaded Belgium there
was a constant drain on the Ameri-
can purse. Our people were asked to
contribute to every fund imaginable.
There were tag days. for each of the
smaller nations in the war zone. Peo-
pies who had been outraged by the
German military machine, peoples
who fell before the onrushing Huns,
we're taken care of by American dol
lars collected in American cities and
sent to Europe on American ships.
Nurses and doctors were dispatched
to the scenes of misery and the ex-
penses of all expeditions were paid by
the American people. Even the Ger
mans themselves were helped by us.
A people who could be SO whole
hearted for other people In time Of
stress could not ignore the demands
made by their own government, for
their own cause. We sent our ships
many was on the high seas, like a pir-
ate, stealing everything it could get
its crooked hands on. We sent our
foodstuffs to the stricken women and
children of Belgium when the SOL
diers of the Emperor Wilhelm were
pilfering the food from the mouths
of babies and diverting it to their very
own. We sent bandages and cotton
garme nts for tho sick and wounded of
raped Belgium when we knew that
Germany was taking a greater part of
this material and using 1t to help
make ammunition. We did all this
With the American sporting spirit,
trusting to luck that some part of the
good work would hit the mark.
Having taken care of the people of
Europe for the greater part of three
years 1t would be foolish to even sup
pose that the American nation in only
six months of wartime would neglect
to attend to the affairs of is own. And
1t did not. When Uncle Sam called
for the dollars and the dimes and the
pennies for his Second Liberty Loan
they were Forthcoming. There might
have been a little time spent in scrap
Ing them together; but they got there
just the sane. It Is the same old
story of thai Garrison finish. We have
not yet lost the art OF hitting the nail
on the head, and at the proper mo-
ment.
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Armor is the ships coat Of mail.
Unlike a knight she is protected only
in her vital spots. Her masts and
upper works may be shot away; her
bow and stern above the water-line
may be riddled, without impairing
her fighting and steaming ability-ex-
cept that a lop-sided ship may not go
so rapidly through the water, and
punctured smoke pipes increase coal
consumption. Recently a writer
stated that warship could still forge
ahead after either end had been shot
away. That statement is inaccurate.
Propellers are at one end, the captain
and boilers are at the other. Neither
can work alone.
John Stevens, of Hoboken, New
Jersey, was the first to propose armor
for protection Of war vessels. Begin
ming in 1912, for 80 years thereafter
he and his family dreamed dread
naughts and regular high-velocity
Kaiser-like Nightmares. Then Con-
gress stepped in and proved armor
was a failure. Later the Monitor and
Merrimac showed Stevens wes right
Stevens, as is usual with inventors at
such times, was in his grave.
The armor problem is to secure
surface hardness which shall break up
the shell, and interior toughness to
prevent penetration. Early types
were steel plates backed by wrought
iron In the 'nineties Harvey and
Krupp devised methods of carbonizing
steel to a depth of about 1.5 inches
from its face. This gives an extreme
ly hard. elastic surface supported by
a tough back having q minimum ten
dency to crack. The gain Is that
inches of Harveyized steel is equiv
alent to inches Of ordinary nickel
steel.
Armor has two chief uses-protec-
ton for the personnel and for the
reliability and interior mechanism of
the ship. The heaviest plates are in
four places-conning tower, in
which the captain cons the ship; bar
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Beware of Closed Mind.

Beware of the closed mind. This
sounds like a paradox when addressed
to young men yet it will I think, bear
examination. 1t is a truism to Say
that the danger of maturity, and
especially Of age is the closing Of the
mind to new ideas. Habit, most pow
erful Of influences, hard experience
the very passage Of the years all alike
tend to stiffen the muscles and to
harden the arteries Of the mind as
they do the body. 1t is a misfortune
with which advancing age must
struggle, and the effort is severe and
too often either neglected or fruitless.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge.
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AT THE RIGHT TIME.

There were those who feared the
kmpaisn for the Second Liberty Loan
kculd be a dismal failure. There
Lere those who secretly, deep down
their hearts, hoped and prayed that
his would be so. There were those
Mo anxiously awaited the announce
kent from Washington that the Amer
ban people had failed to go lover the
bp" in this gigantic task so that the
ford might be sent post haste to
ermany, where there would then be
reat rejoicing.
The American people, true to their
ust, have not failed on their second
description to a Liberty Loan. In
lead, they have more than come up
all expectations. Those who know
10 workings of the American heart
nnot be surprised at this additional
kosity. Reasons had been advanced
hS the loan might be a failure. It
hd been argued that the people in
is country are SO heavily taxed they
build not stand up under additional
hancial weight. 1t had been satd
lat the demands of the Red Cross
I'D the various other war reliefs were
great that the Second Liberty Loan
ust go begging. 1t had been further
Minated that with Christmas in the
fling the ge man and woman
ould be saving every cent for the
hstomary shopping attendant upon
lch a time. These arguments and
Asons fell down In the final drive
u any one doubted for a moment
Eat the American people would fail
eor government, all that person had
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Immediately after President Wilson
declared that a state of war existed
between this country and Germany q
multitude of young mon presented
themselves at the various recruiting
stations for enlistment In the service.
One of these young men was William
Stanley Dunlop. After passing
physical examination he was admitted
to the communications department Of
the navy.
Dunlop, who is but 20 years of age,
is the son of Henry L. Dunlop of 1S
Winthrop street. He has two sisters.
Mrs. Fred Judd and Mrs. Harold Van
Open.
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Sugar S5S a Barrel During Civil War.
(Brooklyn Eagle.)

WI oOhlyu CaSle.)
Chicago, Oct. 16.-Prices of manv
staple food products averaged about
1923 per cent. higher during the first
years OF the civil war. than TODAY.
according to items taken from an in
voice Of goods sold by s. Hamill g.
Co., wholesale grocers of Keokuk.
Iowa, to R. j. Jacobs, a retailer. June
20, 1862.
covered here today by a student of
food prices, was compared with
present prices and caused consider
able discussion among grocers and
commission men.
Sugar In the civil war DAYS sold
for $5S barrel, rice at $313S a bar
ler tobacco at more than double the
present price and tea at s1O1.52 for
25-pound chest. Twenty five pounds
of the same grade Of tea today may
be bought for 1890. Coffee also
was nearly four times as high as at
present.
The same bill Of groceries and
sundries that then brought SCALA
may be bought today for $2s1.61.
Naturally, rice, sugar. cotton and
tobacco, products Of the south, were
unusually high in the north during
the civil war, and transportation Ia
cilities for bringing tea and coffee
to this country were not what thew
are today.
Many of the articles sold then are
handled in different form today.
Mackerel and Goldfish were cheaner
then than now. Paper bags were
higher in those days despite the
present high cost Of paper.
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unNo,s TOO GOOD FOR RILEY.

203&1N0S xOO GOOD EUR ftAAI4s
Prem Camp Devens they oome.-
|khs lnvading hosts. They are the SOL
nases az the nation. They are our boys.
|na was but q few short weeks ago they
invest away in civilian clothes. Casting
|nseds the mutt they appear today In
~ full regimentals Of the American
m1.
A few short weeks ago, we state.
That In wrong. It was few long
wssks ago. Long weeks for them.
AWAY from home. long weeks for US
here at home. Some of them had new
Ier been further away from their
homes than Main Street. When they
were here they probably did not ap-
koreciate It, the old home town: but
now. all is different. It is not such a
bad old place after all. And today 1t
wears q smile of welcome and ex-
kands a glad hand-shake to all the lads
IN khaki.
o. Henry once wrote a story which
had to do with the cosmopolite. This
vas the man who was at home in any
country, a man who classed himself
Is a citizen of the world, a man to
whom there were no national likes
br dislikes Podunk, Illinois. was
ust as agreeable to him as Paris, or
Rome. or London. He was as con-
kented in any hamlet of darkest South
Africa as he would be on Broadway.
Tet one night he came near killing a
nan who happened to cast slurring
emarks on some little burg no one In
he party had ever heard of before. 1t
vas the cosmopolite's home. And
rho ever says anything against
mans home stands liable to die vio-
mt death.
Our New Britain boys who have
one to the colors are home for the
ay. They are glad to be home, away
rom the strenuous duties Of army
fe. We are glad to have them home.
While they are in the old town 1t Is
be duty of the citizens to see to 1t
bat, as they say in the classics, they
I'D the life of Riley" For, after all,
othing is too good for our boys.
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SAWYER APPROACHES PAR.
Chicago Golfer Goes Around Brae
Burn Course In 81.

Boston, Mas, Oct. 27.-Ned Sawyer
yesterday went around the Brae Burn
golf course In 81, one stroke worse
than par, which augurs we'll for the
success of the Chicago representa-
tives today in the match between Saw
yer and Charles Evans, Jr, repre-
senting Chicago against Francis Out
met and Jesse Guilford
Sawyer played with Webb, the club
professional who had q card of rs,
figure which Outnet has attained at
other timer. In view of the fact that
1t was 6awyor's first time on the
course. his showing was a surprise. He
did three holes a stroke under par
Oulmet left Camp Devens, at Aver,
yesterday to timber up on nearby
course. Guilford has been practicing
all week.
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cumstances. The former. which has
an appropriation, is under the juris-
diction Of the common council. while
the latter, which Is created by legis-
lative act and therefore superior to
the council has nothing. Yet people
seem to wonder why the committee
does not do something to reduce the
cost Of fuel and food.
OUR FIRST WHITE BOY.
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After Death in Arabia.

He who died at Azan sends
This to comfort all his friends:
Faithful friends! It lies I know.
Pale and white and cold .as snow;
And We say, "Abdallah's. dead!'
Weeping at the feet and head,
T can see your falling tears,
I can hear your signs and prayers;
Yet I smile and whisper this
Il am not the thing you kiss;
Cease your tears, and let 1t lie;
It was mine, it is not I"
Sweet friends! What the women lave
For its last bed Of the grave,
Is a tent which I am quitting.
Is a garment no more fitting,
Is a cage from which, at last,
Like a hawk my soul hath passed,
Love the inmate, not the ROOM
The wearer. not the garb,--the plume
OF the falcon, not the bars
Which kept him from these splendid
stars.
Loving friends! Be wise and dry
Straightway every weeping eye
What ye lift upon the bier
Is not worth a wistful tear,
IT'S an empty sea-shell,-one
Out Of which the pearl Is gone;
The shell Is broken, 1t lies there:
The pearl, the all, the soul, Is here.
IT'S an earthen jan whose lid
Allah sealed, the while it hid
That treasure of his treasury,
A mind that loved him; let 1t lie!
Let the shard be earth's once more.
Since the gold shines in his store!
Allah glorious! Allah good!
Now thy world Is understood;
Now the long, long wonder ends;
Yet ye weep, my erring friends,
While the man whom ye call dead,
In unspoken bliss, instead,
Lives and loves you; lost, tits true,
By such light as shines for you,
But in light We cannot sec
OF unfulhlled felicity
In enlarging paradise.
Lives a life that never dies.
Farewell, friends! \ Yet not farewell;
Where I am, ye, too, shall dwell.
am gone before your face,
A moments time, a little space,
When We come where have stepped
Ye will wonder why ye wept;
Ye will know, by wise love taught,
That here is all, and there is naught,
Weep awhile, if We are fain,-
Sunshine still must follow rain;
Only not at death.-for death
Now I know, is that first breath
Which our souls draw when we enter
Life. which Is Of all life center.
Be we certain all seems love,
Viewed from Allah's throne above;
Be We stout Of heart, and come
Bravely onward to your home!
La Allah lila Allah! yea!
Thou love divine! Thou love Away!
He that died at Azan gave
This to those who made his grave.
EDWIN ARNOLD
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would be boon and the system to
be used in the evening school is said
to be conducive to quick but
practically working knowledge of that
tongue. Rather than taking up the
study Of the language from the pure
grammatical side as is done In schools
and colleges the student will learn
the correct pronunciation and then
familiarize himself with the more i'm
portant words, idioms and phrases so
that on the completion of the course
he should be at least capable of maxi
ing himself understood wherever
French is spoken.
AS yet the state commissioner on
domestic animals has not repealed
his order that all dogs shall be
chained to the premises of owners
and shall not be permitted on the
streets unless held in leash. Judging
from the increased number of CANNES
seen running loose during the past
ing their vigilance. The dog catcher
is not however, so word to the
wise, etc.
Even time is more expensive than
it used to be. The Ingersoll, the
watch which made the dollar IA
NOUS" now bids fair to make $135
famous for the price has jumped to
that
Compelled to stand upright within
the close confines of a six-foot steel
locker for more than a quarter of
an hour until friends and practical
jokers had lured the factory superin-
tendent out of the office on the pre-
text of a telephone call was the none
too pleasant experience Of a. pretty
young stenographer in a local factory
office this week. AS joke her friends
had pushed her into the locker and
were feeding her peanuts through the
grating, when the superintendent
suddenly appeared on the scene
-
Hand in hand with the high cost of
living trots the high cost Of clean
Illness. With brooms. formerly selling
at fifty and sixty cents, now costing
a dollar, and common soap retailing
at seven cents a bar cleanliness bids
fair to soon be classed as a luxury
A local policeman, testifying in the
Wise murder trial, astounded State's
Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn when he
described mans sleeping apparel as
his "pajamas.' What, you mean pa
jamas, don't you," queried the law
yer, while even the sober judge per-
mitted a smile to flicker across his
face.
The utter unreliability of volunteer
labor has been amply demonstrated
by the municipal farm experiment.
Men who generously volunteer to
work, forget it when called upon to
do so and now the crop is threatened
with ruin unless the much needed as
sistance arrives.
City officials are now getting cur
ious too. Yesterday one Of them was
seen peeking under the little red
lanterned box at the northern cor
ner of the green, where an electric
light standard stood a long time ago,
Maybe before the coming generation
goes into the trenches this unsightly
object will be repaired.
The Municipal Farm committee and
the New Britain Food and Fuel COM
mittee find themselves In peculiar cir
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The Secret Elopement.

He-We had best elope about 2 in
the morning. I will bring my motor
to the next corner and She-Oh,
couldn't you make it little earlier,
dear? Pa and Ma 90 so want to see
us of and I don't like to keep them
up so late.
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On the Other Hand.

Those women who refuse to obey
laws made by men should reflect on
what would happen if the reverse
were attempted. If men refused to
obey laws made by women, how many
happy households would be broken
up!
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THAYER CLUB WINS.

Cambridge, Mass, Oct. 27.-The
Thayer club defeated the Eliot club
for the eight-oared championship of
Harvard yesterday afternoon over
mile course ON tho Charles river. The
winners took the lead almost from the
start and finished a boat length to
the good Harvard's annual fall re.
Ratta will be held Friday.
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Editor Charles Hopkins Clark, of
the Hartford Courant, calls Congress
sional Candidate Lynn w. Wilson,
editor of the Bridgeport Farmer, a
fire eating editor and Editor Will
son retorts by calling Editor Clark
"a handled editor" Thus does the
Hooverian gospel Of dietetics obtrude
itself into our special congressional
campaign. - Greenwich News and
Graphic.
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Lost on a Kansas Prairie.
(Atchison GlObe).

(Atchison Globe).
The new engineer on the Rock
Islands Edgerton line stopped his
train in front Of farmhouse the
other day, and asked the farmer II the
train was on the right way to DeKalb.
On account of the high weeds the
engineer could not see the track.
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His Reason.

Every man should be studying
something"
1--WE taken up the higher mathe-
matics."
"Where?"
I'm the household expense ac-
counts"
Washington Star.
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More Than Mere Right.

singleton-"But even a married
man has a right to his opinion"
Henpeck-"My dear fellow it isn't a
question of right; it's question of
courage."-Boston Transcript
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japanese English,

A correspondent Of the Chicago
Tribune reports having run across =
the sign in Tokyo: ct. Cockeye,
Tailor, Respectable Ladies Has Fits
upstairs"
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There is some newspaper specu-
lation as to what China is to get out
of the war. We suggest three cheers.
That is about the only thing any
boys will have to give after the war
is over.-Capper"s Weekly,
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what actual warfare really Is. Bon
voyage.-Hartford Post.

If Ban Johnson becomes soldier
be may be expected to make the
usual announcement that tickets of
admission to Berlin in the last grand
battle will not be permitted to fall
into the hands of SPECTATORS
Springfield News.
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Financial Note,
(Boston Transcript.

IbOSCO1 ITaISCf1pt).
Short say, old man, can you lend
me $40?
Longley-Impossibl I've tried tn
lend you money several times. but
YOU always seem to look upon il as
gift.
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A labor leader charge that Hill.
quit is a rich man. Well, that doesn',
mean he can't be a poor candidate
New York World
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WILL YE?

WILL YE?
VIM 70 bear the Teuton heel
Crushing down your common
WoAl7
WIN 20 not avenge the wrong
Europe hath endured SO long?
9tay the tyranny and strife? =
Dh4eo for liberty and lief
w. L. COURTNEY
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One Pittsf1eld man has been
treated" in about every form under
the sun, but it was not until this
week that he was ever invited In "to
have a shine. "-Berkshire Eagle.
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Whiskey at a dollar drink Is a.
prospect that causes not a tremor.
But when the chemist begins pro-
ducing something just as good 90
New York Sum-
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The boys are anXiously looking for
people who object to Halloween
noises SO as to make special disturb
ance in front of their houses.-Meri-
den Journal.
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A Live Book Wanted.

V1UIIUOII L I1IIVSJ.
Il want nice book for an invalid
q wounded soldier"
Something religious?"
mo; he's convalescent."
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FACTS AND FANCIES.
time.

There was real reason for calling
him "Argus-eyed'' Teddy.-Berkshire
Ea gle.
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The members Of congress are go.
ing to the front to see first hane