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Show EOCKET TORPEDO GUN DESTRUCTFUL IMPLEMENTS OF NAVAL WAR. MOST llae Hade Borne Experiment That May Boou lie Teeted Effects of e Sore Shot" on a llodern Warship. Real Admiral Howell jfie of a large fleet that hts engaged the Sandy Hook batteries, and, either through the smoke and confusion of battle, or some other chance of war, has succeeded in passing the fort, clearing the channel of torpedoes by countermining, and is speeding for the Narrows, from which point she expects to make of New York a mass of smoking ruins. She has not reckoned well, however, for, owing to great draught of water, the battleship is compelled to follow the tortuous main ship channel, which brings her within range of the new weapons of destruction mounted on the point at Coney . The awful destruction of the battleship Maine by means of high explosives is destined to have' an important influence in naval warfare. The lesson that it teaches will stimulate active experiment in new fields, which must result in important inventions of new That gundeath dealing instruments. powder has reached the greatest limit of its possibilities must be accepted, and the advancement of engines of war in the future must be along the line of high explosives. How to use them with safety and accuracy is the question. The guns of the Vesuvius type have not fulfilled the requirements by a great deal. The Sims Dudley dynamite gun, though an advance, has not answered the purpose. The problem still remains to be settled. The friends of the new gun which is building at the Driggs Seabury Gun and Ammunition company claim that it will accomplish the two ends. Its tests as soon Island. The decks of the enemy are cleared to fight the forts that mark the harbor entrance, for the insignificant little pieces on the white Bands of New Yorks pleasure ground have not engaged the serious attention of the commander. The great guns of his main battery, though pointed in that direction, have not deemed them worthy of This he reserves a single broadside. for the more difficult task of Bllencing the forts of the Narrows. A report, little louder than that of a toy pistol, however, at last attracts his attention and, before he has time to reply with even one of his rapid fire guns, a number of steel cylinders are hissing and sputtering through the smoky atmosphere. With accelerating velocity they - Owing to there being practically no pressure in the tube, there Is no recoil, and, therefore, the carriage remains in position. The elimination of the strain due to recoil permits of an extremely light carriage, the weight of the field gun and carriage complete being under four hundred poundsi The breech mechanism is extremely simple, and of the interrupted screw type. A copper gas check is provided, which takes the place of the brass carriage case in rapid fire guns, or the De Bangs gas check in larger pieces, which prevents the escape of gas into the breech mechanism. The firing of the gun is readily acThe breech complished, as follows: block is first opened and the projectile inserted. It is then closed and the primer attached. The gun is then spun up and when revolving rapidly enough and pointed at the target, the lanyard is pulled, the primer fired, and the flame communicated to the rocket composition in the end of the projectile. A certain amount of gas is allowed to escape around the rocket, so that no more pressure will be banked up than is sufficient to give the projectile a good start. After leaving the muzzle the burning of the rocket composition increases the density of the gas, thus imparting an accelerating velocity. In the larger gun, used for fortifications and on board ship, the side frame which forms the trunnions of the breech is replaced by cylindrical casing, which carries the trunnions at its 8.5-ln- ch INVASION OF CUBA. Arrangements Being Perfected for An Rnrlj Movement of Troops. Tampa, May 3. Arrangements are being made for the landing of an Amer-ca- n force in Cuba. By Friday the following fleet of vessels is expected to be in waiting at the wharves at Tampa, for the reception of the United States troops: The Florida, Olivette and Mascot to, of the Plant line; the Alano and Comal, of the Mallory line; the Aransas and possibly the Lampasas, of the Oregon line, and the and Berkshire, of the Merchants and Miners line. These boats iiave all been contracted for, and have a carrying capacity of about 6000 troops. It ia not believed, however, that the embarkation will take place before Sunday. Much remains to he done in the way of gathering ammunition and supplies, and several day a must elapse before all is in readiness. It is that the force will be made up of 3000 Infantry, 1000 cavalry and tea batteries of artillery; in all, close to 5000 men. Ouly one regiment of cavalry, the Ninth, is now in camp at Tamps, but the Tenth, now at will, it is believed.be brought down here to fill out the quota. ny be-iev- AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. We are asserting In the courts onr right to the exclusive use of the word CASTORIA, end PITCHER'S CASTORIA, as our Trade Mark. I, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hysnnls, Massachusetts, was the originator of PITCHER'S CASTORIA, the same that hae borne and does now hear the fac --simile signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on every wrapper. This la the original PITCHER'S CASTORIA" which has been used In the homes of ihe mothers of America for over thirty yeara Look carefully at the wrapper and see that It la "the kind you have always bought," mud has the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the Wrapper. No one baa authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company, of which Chaa H. Fletcher la President. March 8, 1867. SAMUEL PITCHER, M. & Faith without works ia dead ; and It's th same way with a watch. Bleyeif Tires, St.SO Mir, warranted. pointed. Best, rest's prepaid. Agaals apCo., Maw York. pair. Express wsmnty, Mineralised Rubber . The man who tells us good news alwoya seems to have a pleasant voice. lleauty la Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean akin. No Candy Catharbeauty without tic cleans your blood and keeps it dean, by stirring ui the lazy liver and driving all from the body. Begin banish pimples, boils, blotches, black heads, nnd that sickly bilous complexion Ira taking Ca scare ts, beuuty for ten cents. All druggists, satisfaction guaranteed. 10c, 25c, 50a im-lurit- to-da- Chick-amaug- s, This earth is a jolly old soak, judging from the remarks the raindrops. To Cure Headache In IB Minutes. AH Spaniards Destroy Mains Wreck. Take Dr. Davis' deDruggists. 3. The state Washington, May An Interesting Meeting. partment has learned through ita seWhat did you discuu at the club forward end. From the trunnions the cret agents that the wreck of the batconstruction is similar to that of the tleship Maine lying in the Havana today? Nothing. We : just talked." field piece. The breech mechanism and harbor has been destroyed by the sy. Don't Tobacco Spit end Smote Tear Life method of loading are practically the Spanish authorities. It is supposed by To quit tobacco easily and forever, be magnerve take and vigor, same. The transmission of the power, the officials of the administration that netic, full of life, the wonderworker, that makes week men guaranhowever, and the multiplication of the this action on the part of the Spanish strong. All druggists, 60c. r 11. Cure Address teed. Booklet and sample freei speed are quite different authorities has been taken to prevent Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or New York. the raising of the wreck after the capWith baseball men it is three strikes and COLOR IN CIGARS. ture of Havana. out, but with labor unions one strike and A cabinet member is authority for out. A Uht Wrapper May Not Mean a Mild the following statement; We shall Hope never hurts anyone; it never inSmoke. One of the most absurd fads of the make a part of our first business after terferes with duty; it gives courage and find clears the judgment. cigar trade Is that of color in reference taking possession of Havana, to to the Havana. The idea prevails that out who were the perpetrators of that doubt about clocks running no There's color is indicative of strength. It is no crime of the night of February 15. vacation than at any other faster such thing, says the London Grocers "If we find that they have escaped time. daring Monthly. A light or medium colored from the island and have gone back to Narrow tires makes ruts the broad tire cigar is not necessarily mild or medium Spain, we will follow them there and shuts. in flavor, for the simple reason that the we will tell Spain that the war shall color refers to the outside wrapper only, not atop until they are delivered up to which in itself is of very thin sub- ua for punishment." stance and in quantity is of very small 01 Senate raises War Measures. proportion to the other materials that make up the cigar. As a matter of feet, Washington, May 3. Several war the fillers and bunch wrappers will de- measures have been passed by the sentermine the body or strength of the ate, and, notwithstanding their imcigar. The actual strength, or, otherportance, not one of them elicited the wise, of the inner body of the cigar debate. Probably the most namely, fillers and bunch wrappers, is slightest too often an unknown quantity. It is important measure passed by the senquite true that a statement may be ate was the emergency war deficiency made that these parts are bill, carrying 835,720,945. Not more or a mixture of this and that, and give than ten minutes were consumed in a certain ash, etc., but this explains reading the measure. Mr. Ilawley, nothing. Not only are there various chairman of the military affairs comgrades of the same tobacco in relation mittee, secured the passage of a bill to quality, but there are also a variety for the enlistment of a voof grades that determine strength. With providing lunteer brigade of engineers, and of the exception that certain tobaccos have Both the method and results when 10,000 men in the south who are imof or a is otherwise, varying degrees body mune to yellow fever, these enlistments Syrup of Figs taken; it is pleasant mild, medium or full cigar is largely a and refreshing to the taste, and acts matter of chance. The craze for light to be in addition to those provided for yet promptly on the Kidneys, colors or dark colors has, nevertheless, in the present call for 125,000 volun- gently Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sysassumed alarming proportions. The teers. The men ' will enlist "for the tem effectually, dispels colds, headmanufacturers, particularly those of war." aches and fevers and cures habitual Cuba, are at their wits ends how to constipation. Syrup of Figs is the CUBANS FOR CUBA. grapple with the matter. Nature is very only remedy of its kind ever proimpartial and quietly Ignores the fads anu fancies of people in general. To- Four Hundred of Them EnUst Into a Cav- duced, pleasing to the taste ana alry Regiment I'nder SanguU.y. bacco leaves, like most things, are subceptable to the stomach, prompt i il Tampa, Fla., May 3. Two hundred its action and truly beneficial ject to the vagaries of the natural eleA crop may give an undue ments. native Cubans, who have been quietly effects, prepared only from the most proportion of dark, light or medium; enlisted in New York by General Julio healthy and agreeable substances, its except for color all may be equally Sangnilly, have arrived in Tampa. many excellent qualities commend it good. What is the manufacturer to do They will he formed into a cavalry to all and have made it the most if he can only dispose of his light and known. regiment, and. under the leadership of medium, and has to keep all his dark? the lamous Cuban who enlisted them, popular remedy of Syrup Figs is for sale in 50 He already threatens to raise the price for Cuba with cent bottles by all leading drugembark will 'probably on his lighter colors, in which case the American troops. The rest of the gists. Any reliable druggist 'jho public would be paying a higher price the for by no means the best article. It regiment will be made np of Cubans may not have it on hand will profrom Tampa and vicinity. The New cure it promptly for any one who Do not accept any Yorkers created a sensation aa they wishes to try marched down the street in a body, substitute. and they were followed by blocks by a CALIFORNIA F10 SYRUP CO. SAM FRA XCISCO, CAL. a perfect mob of excited Cabana. Anti-Headach- e. j as it can be completed will be followed with great interest. The gun is the invention of Rear Admiral J. A. Howell, of the United States navy, whose automobile torpedo was so effective and his name in conjunction with it certainly Insures a measure of success. Rear Admiral Howell has been conducting experiments for several years to improve the Vesuvius' guns and obviate the difficulties which they present.. He believes that the only means by which a safe, accurate and effective gun can be secured is by embodying in d character the projectile the of piece and projectile; that is, to have it receive impulse from forces residing within itself. Upon these lines he has worked until he has evolved a gun which will speed a rocket containing the explosive with the accuracy of a rifle ball. He believed the rocket must be made to revolve with the same rotary motion of a steel projectile hurled from an ordinary gun. To do this the enormous pressure of twenty tons to a an square inch would be required in dewould a force Such ordinary gun. tonate any mass of high explosive at the Instant of discharge. He therefore conceived the idea of revolving both the gun and the charge. The projectile, caliber, of consisting, in the of gun cotton, is one hundred pounds metal a thin in envelope, the incased rear end of which contains rocket composition and the head a percussion fuse which is set in action by the force of Impact. This is placed in the gun, and when, by a mechanical contrivance, it hunhas been spun up to twenty-fiv- e a friction dred revolutions per minute, cap ignites the rocket composition, and the banked up pressure at the base starts the rocket. This, then, begins its flight with a rotary motion, corresponding to that of the gun. The fact that this motion is due to neither the resistance of the atmosphere against vanes nor to the escape of a part of the propelling gas from a number of vents, gives it great range, velocity, and, above all, perfect accuracy while the absence of any Initial shock of discharge renders it absolutely safe. The heaviest war rocket fired from the new Howell gun will weigh three hundred pounds, the range will be about three thousand yards, and its accuracy almost equal to that of a rifle prejectile. The piece, though it can not be called a high angle fire gun, nor one of point-blan-k range. Is between the mortar and the rifle. The new gun can be used in both offensive and defensive operations, ashore or afloat in fact, the illustration represents a battleship attacked by several of these guns and the effect of a detonation against her armored sides. The ensmy is supposed to have been two-fol- 10-in- ch then rise as high as the foremast-heaturn their noses downward, and, with unerring aim, one of them crashes into his starboard side forward, tearing away the armored plates and leaving a hole through which rush the waters of the bay. Another falls a little astern, too far away to do its work of destruction, though the concussion shakes the ponderous fighting machine from stern to stern, disables her Bteerlng gear and puts her engines out of line. The guns from the forts at the Narrows now open fire at long range, and after a few d, well directed shots, a white flag Is seen floating at the masthead and New York is saved. The new gun may he briefly described as follows: The field piece consists of a cylindrical tube forming the main body, which is separate from the part containing the breech. The gun is supported by steel framework, the rear end of which carries the breech portion, and the front forms the forward half of the muzzle ball bearings, the other hall! consisting of a ring shrunk upon the main tube near the muzzle. Since the bore is perfectly concentric with the breech cavity the gun can be loader without absolutely bringing the main tube to rest In this type, the gun Is rotated by i u it Madrid Under Martial Madrid, May 3. law. uunrias, n. mew 7089 Senor Auguilera, the civil governor of Madrid, has york, nr. BS3YCLES carried over from UK mwl he acrifetd umw. Sew LUleh tirade, aU i juBt home office posted on the walls of the the customary proclamation, intimatFall nukes, S3 to SI2. ing that the civil authorities consider Wee Mp m appro-. ( Write the circumstances that the justify SWaleonlpiianl. w baraala lint end art catalogue model. HICY CLK FKEE foe handing over to the military authoriBend fur one, Klder areata Canled. Learn hue to Kara a meyelsml nuke monsfr ties the mission of keeping order. K. B. MEAD CYCLE CO, CHICAGO, Lieutenant General Daban, captain general of Madrid, has assumed charge, and the first military patrols have Just appeared in the Puerto del Sol. The means of gear and sprocket wheels might be reasonably assumed that, as measure has been taken in consequence in every package of Schilsimilar to those on the bicycle for mul- possessing the essential qualities of a of certain political parattitude of the tiplying speed and transmitting power. good cigar, the darker cigar is by far ties lings Best tea. recently. The whole garrison is A small bevel gear, which surrounds the best, it is about time that the reFollow them no matter the gun, engages a larger one mounted tailer should take a hand in the mat- ready in barracks. s Mew Forty-UvBrigadiers. what tea you use. on the trunnions. This large wheel ter. carries on its shaft a small sprocket, to Washington, May 3. The president which it is keyed. A sprocket chain haa decided that there shall be five Accounting for It. Dr-GUNnloads from this to a large sprocket See here, Lucy, said the teacher army corps of three divisions each. S: wheel mounted on the trail. The latter to one of her the an will This opporgive president scholars, "you ONE FOR A DOSE. wheel may be revolved either by hand have written thebright word oyster without tunity to appoint major generals, five Remove Pimples, ... the size or foot power, depending upon an r. Purify the Blood, in command of army corps, one of Bilioaeneoe, Cere H eodoeho sad Dyspepsia. of the gun. A movement of tho bowel each day is asessssiy Oh, yes, exclaimed the scholar, which General Dodge haa declined, and for health. The oelt her sripe sor sicken. The speed is so multiplied, through reaching for the slate to make the coryoo, wo will moil sample free, or foil box for command of divisions. Each in fifteen Bo. Hold by dross Mo. Dl. IBSANII CO., MILA., PA. this system of sprocket chain and rection; I roust have been thinking division be will of three composed this was one of those months when gears, that a velocity of twelve hunWC Uo AT HAsf dred revolutions per minutes is imthere Is no r in oysters. Yonkers brigades, which will make commissions BICKFORD, forty-fiv- e Eeach Washington. D. O., tfcaf for brigadiers. brigade Statesman. will roeolvs oulek replies. B. Hh N.IL Vols parted to the gun. will be composed of three regiments. SUZ tuih Corps. rroMCsfus Gains sloes 117 S af Directions PILLS Toeoh-vlo- IF PENSION ee |