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Show The New American Boy. Plans, for the Ship Submitted to the Navy Department. eyes I never would have believed in the world. Never. 1 The proposal to build a warship to be called the American Boy, the money to be expended In the project to be raised by popular subscription among the boys In the various cities of the United States, has proceeded so far that the money is not only largely In hand, but the plana for the battleship hfve been drawn up, and are now in the hands of the navy department officials for approval. But beside the sentimental Interest which naturally attaches to the erase through the manner of Its presentation to the United States navy, the plans are worthy of special attention because of the fact that they provide for the largest battleship, bar none. In the world. The length of the American Boy, according to the plans. Is 1,000 feet, or nearly three times the length of the Illinois or Kentucky. Its breadth Is h about of its length, or 207 feet 4 Inches. Its displacement Is 48,410 tons, while Its propelling force Is supplied by eight turbine screws, expected to develop a speed of forty knots an hour. The American Boy is a d s. of the seagoing battleship Her guns will be the most powerful known to man. The first battery will Include four monster guns, twelve ones. and four All of them, of course, are breechloading rifles. The secondary battery consists of two dynamite guns and twenty mortars. Still a third group of cannon, called the tertiary battery, la composed of the following formidable array. Twenty-fou- r guns, eight guns, four rapid-flg- e guns, 100 fifty eight tubes for discharge of aerial torpedoes, eight tubes for submarine torpedoes, forty sixteen Gatling guns. There will also be a monster ram which. If this gigantic ship ever gets at close quarters with an enemy, would shear open a ship like the Illinois as easily as the Illinois herself could stave In the plates of a passenger steamer. The ram of the American Boy is, perhaps, the most powerful offense weapon, exclusive of electrical contrivances, ever designed. Imagine a steel cold chisel of enormous proportions backed by a mass of iron weighing 48,410 tons, and imagine this whole mass hurling Itself across the sea at the speed of an express train. No human device, except such another ship as the American one-fift- double-tur-rete- first-clas- 15-ln- ch 10-ln- ch 12-in- ch 12-ln- ch ch , ch guns and the like; oil sufficient to quiet a high sea and keep It still during thirty days; a submerged guard against mines and torpedoes; 25,000 tons of smokeless coal; a gymnasium in the cabin as large as a small auditorium; finally, 170 officers and 2,500 men. The coBt of the monster ship will be $20,000,000. The range of the great guns of the American Boy will be thirteen miles, and they can be fired at that distance with perfect accuracy. Taken altogether, It is quite certain that no human Invention of destruction can compare for a moment with the American Boy. A LONQ FALL. It If lie Hadnt Keen It. The man with a bunch of twine for whiskers was shaking his chin at the company of listeners, one of whom had shortly before read from a newspaper a story of a man falling down a well and sustaining no very serious injury, says the Washington Btar. Which reminds me, gents, he said, "that what I am about to relate to you Is a tact, a calm, cold fact, that I wouldnt think of telling you If It was anything else. It happened out in one of the deep mines of Colorado, where there was a straight shaft 850 feet deep. Some said It was 875, but, gents, Im a truthful man, and I know It was 25 feet 1 Inch short of that, for I measured It myself. Well, to make a long story short, one day there was a man out to see the mine from New Tork to buy it He b$d a pot of money, ar he looked- like he carried It around under his vest, for he was as big through as a bass drum and built on them proportions. I guess he weighed 300 pounds, though It might have been only 298. Anyhow, he was standing around the mouth of the shaft one morning, and by some chance or other he toppled over and down he went I was looking right at him when he toppled, and I never want to see another mans face look like his did then, gents, indeed I dont. Not much. Well, to make a long story short, we looked at each other for a minute as he went down the hole, and then we broke for the cage, which Kner Won Id Ilava nnlleved - was fastened up yet, and two of us started down after him, expecting to find him a mangled mass at the bot SOME WAYS OP LOVE. Mr. Falling In love Is SI ORE RATHER THAN KITCHEN nonsense.Singleton It doesnt follow that a felWhy Girls Irefsr Work llfhlod Counter low wont do It, all the same. I was to Doinottle Service. a Many Chicago woman has wondered whether it is as difficult to secure satisfactory domestic help In other cities as it Is at home. There is always a good demand for good cooks and other household assistant! and there Is Just as continued an of girls desirous of securing positions In offices and stores, and the mystery of this Is dsrk and Impenetrable to many a distracted matron Perhaps the following expression! from an Intelligent young woman who is at present employed In a large State street establishment may throw some It Is all very light on the subject: well to talk about prejudice against domestic service, but the whole thing Is Just this: Working in a store it business; In a kitchen It is drudgery. In a store a girl has some chance to do something for herself. She is put behind a counter and told to sell goods, and she knows It she does It well or better than the others about her she Is likely to get her salary raised or get a better position in the store. If a girl has plenty of ambition and really Is a good saleswoman after a time she may become a buyer for the house or even a drummer. What has a girl In a kitchen to look for? If she is a fine cook she will Just stay cook as long as she stays with the family and when she gets out and wants another job she has to start In as cook again. Another thing is that the girl In a store Is responsible for her work to the manager of her department and to nobody else. The girl In a kitchen has to please the wife, husband, children, aunt and any number of visitors who come around, and to please half a dozen people of different tastes Is not an easy thing. Besides, I want my evenings to myself instead of being stuck in a kitchen six nights out of seven. Why, lrls in this stors belong to musical ciubs'and socials by the dozen, and there Is not one who would change to go Into anybodys home. Besides that, all girls like company, I guess, and If there Is any prejudice about tbe matter it Is with the young man who comes to see the girls. You wont find many fellows who would go to see a girl who was a kitchen mechanic, for that is what they call them. There Is no reason why a girl in a store cannot have as much company as she pleases, as her work does not unfit her for It, but if she starts to cook or take any other situation in a house she will very soon find that there are reasons enough why no young men will come to see her. I suppose every girl looks forward to the time when she will be married and over-suppl- y 12-ln- ch NO. 4. AMEllICAN FOliK, UTAH, SATUKDAY, DECEMI5EU 17, 1898. VOL. VI very near doing It myself, a ace upon a time. She had a way of looking down when you were talking to her and of looking up when she wasn't looking down. Ah! different girls have different lines. Hers was the domesticated. You really must try this salad, Mr. Singleton, her mother would say; LouiBe made It. Or. Do have another piece of Louisas pie; the dear girl will be so disappointed if you do not appreciate her cooking. As for Louisas pastry well, it needed no pressing. If I had started the courting business seriously and gone there every evening I should have become a confirmed dyspeptic, so Irresistible were Its attractions. Unfortunately we are so constructed that we like everything that Is not good for us, . But I am digressing. and I Also, Louisa was singularly accomplished at sewing. Putting on a couple of buttons was nothing to her, I found. You may smile! Perhaps you havent tried sewing on buttons? I have and I know the difficulties. What with the cooking and the sewing and tbe looking up and the looking down, it was nearly a case with me. I got to going there three times a week and was thinking of an excuse for making It four, when an aunt fell HI and Louisa's mother went away to nurse her. The night after her departure I went to supper as usual. There was no oil In the salad, the pie wasn't half done and the pie crust ugh! I cant bear to think of It! Then the truth dawned upon me. Louisa's try was made by Louisa's mother. pas- The shock and the pastry so upset me that I didnt call for several days. Then I rallied. At any rate, Louisa could sew, I reflected. You see, I wanted Borne excuse to marry her, so I went there again. She greeted me with a reproachful coolness. I thought at any rate you would come round for your shirt, she said; I have sewn the buttons on the collar. Oh, Louisa! I began I was about to take her In my arms when my eyes lighted on the button. It was black; it was made of metal; it was ten times too large! It was, in short, the kind that my tailor uses for er other garments! So I escaped. It was stnpld about such things, you know; but X cant help laughing. Why, It was only the other day that she was saying that. If you want to do anything well, you mast start practicing It when you are young. And that's Just what Fred Merchant says the impudent fellow! He used to be awfully shy, but be Isn't now; at least, not with me. Its very tiresome of him, because I don't like boys to be so silly. I should be dreadfully angry with him if he wasnt I mean If he didnt well, hes rather nice, you know! Hes a great big fellow, at the same school with my brothers. You cant help noticing him if you go to any of their sports. Hes always making fifties or kicking goals or winning races or something. You wouldn't think be was afraid of a lion to see him then. But when be came to my house he ussed to sit and blush and twiddle his cap. Just because of me! It made me cross! Of course I didnt care about him or want him to take any notice of me, really; only It seemed so stupid. Besides, people might have fancied that he thought I. wasnt nice. X knew he didnt think that, because he used to stare at me so when he thought I wasnt looking. All the same, I couldn't get him to say much more than yes or no to me, till one evening he came round to show the mater and pater a little bronze jure he had won at some sports such a dear little pug, with a saucy little face that seemed to scowl and laugh both at once. "Oh!" I cried, Isnt he lovely! I am so fond of dogs! Do you really like him. Miss FlosI dont want sie? he said, eagerly. it Weve got such a lot at home. Do keep It, please." He put It right In my hande; and when ma said, Certainly not! In her most emphatic tones, he only laughed and took up his cap and ran away. Ms said that the pater would be sure tc make me send It back; but he didn't only pinched my ear and said some thing about beginning in early days! After that, of course, I felt I must be nice to Fred; but he was so aggravat-lngl- y shy that I didnt know how to thak him. But few evening? Inter, when I had been playing tennis with him and the boys they were awfully tiresome coming home, and at last they ran away from me. Fred didnt go with them, so we walked home together. He kept looking round him uneasily, and I was afraid that In a minute he would follow. However, I told him I was afraid to go through the lane alone, and then he said be would come with me. You neednt unless you like, you I dont want to know." I told him. bother you. u-er Oh, no! he said, "I I should like to. Thats a story, I said. He stuck his hands No, It isnt. and had another look in his pockets round. Boys are so funny! Wont you be frightened? I asked. "No-He fidgeted with his racI dont think I'm frightened or quet. many things. "Oh, but you are!" He looked surprised. What sort of things? Poor, harmless little things, I said, demurely, that wouldnt hurt a fly. He looked at me doubtfully. "How do you know Im frightened? Because you blush. "You mean Im shy with girls, dont I couldnt help laughing. It you? sounded so comical. Oh. dear, no." I said. Then X laughed again. "Perhaps, he suggested. Its a good Job Im shy. If I werent you might think me too bold. I looked up "Oh, no. I shouldnt! at him Just to make him blush as usual, you know; and if he didnt suddenly stoop down. Just as I looked up, and Of course, I hadnt the least Idea that he would do such a thing! 1 should have been ever so crass with him, only well, he had given me that dear little pug, dont you seel St er-yo- o. providential. But sometimes I think you see, she had a very nice way of looking up and down. The Rev. John Shy (communicated) A curate AFTER GRACE. once courted a nice little miss, Grace by name, and by nature a sinner; He never dared ask for "Just one little kiss, P'raps he thought by bis preaching to win her! His most passionate speech, when they sat down together. Was A very fine day, or Most singular weather! Boy, could stand for an Instant against so terrible an Impact Should two such ships crash together at full speed there would be such a collision as the Imagination Is unable to forecast The armor belt of the American Boy Inches thick, backed will be thirty-si- x of asbestos feet felt The turby eight Inches. ret armor will be forty-fou- r armored two be will decks, one There above the other, the upper carrying five inches of steel, the lower eight Inches. The list of striking things supplemental to the general work of destruction is amaslng. It Includes a twenty-inc- h telescope, two war balloons, two hydraulic dredgers rigged at the prow for clearing obstructed channels, two derricks that operate In connection with the dredgers, two submarine boats armed with cable shears. 800 auxiliary engines for lifting supplies, moving "Ah, me! He Is vowed unto silence, she cried; tom. But we didn't, and as we began her chances of securing a good hus"TIs my mission to make him abto near the bottom we heard him band are certainly much better If she jure It; yelling like a coyote to hold up or wed is working In a store than if she Is a Pa must ask him to dinner; Ill sit by mash the life out of him. That scared cook or other domestic servant. No, his side. us worse than the other, and we want- there Is no feature of domestic serAnd I really should think I could cure It! ed to go back, but we couldnt do vice that commends It to me or other that, so we went slow and got down girls of ambition. Chicago Chron So he came, and they all tried their to him all right. Well, to make a long Icle. hardest to make do know that story short, by gum, you Told Hcret or tho Kttehsn. Him really at home; to Insure It, we found that he had gone down that An eating house proprietor in Taco- He was seated by Grace, and, his sihole so fast and he had filled it so full ma, Wash., arrested for selling game lence to break, that he had compressed the air In It out of season, Bald her father (who couldnt endure escaping on evidence to such an extent that by the time he satisfactory to the Jury that his wife i- tgot pretty near to the bottom he could prepare mutton to make it taste Forgettlng the blessing "Now what wasnt moving faster than he would like venison. will you take? have moved through that much water, "I should like to say A Judicial Opinion. and he had really stopped ten or fifteen said the curate! How do you know she feet from the bottom and couldn't get Cholly Miss Flossie Smiles Ma says It either way, which was what scared him wont marry you, deah boy?" Chappie will be time enough for me to think of so as we came down on him in the Precedent, me deah fellah. She when Im two or three cage. Very peculiar occurrence, gents, nevah has married any one. Cholly years older and wear my dresses quite "Thats so, by Jove." and If I hadn't aeen it with my own long. I don't contradict her ma Is so Grace" love-maki-ng Pauls, Brotrh Fran knew. The lowland Scottish peasant has an way of speakextremely matter-of-faing about his relatives and friends deaths. A good woman who had lost her aunt remarked to a sympathizing visitor: Eh, yes, mem, auntys died. But she was very auld and frail. She' far better awa and far happier In glory and I got a hunner pounds o' a legacy." New York Tribune. ct All Fat On, I hate to see a man sailing under What way?" false colors that way. The way Kidder is. Why, hea In mourning for his mother-in-law. |